Architecture and IT

I think that IT could and should learn from other industries.

I firmly belie that IT has a lot fo learning to do.

There are mature operations out there. but I have a lot of learning to do.

So I look at IT through the lense of other insdusties

Here I will look at it through Architecture.

An old and large industru.

some things are the same , some things are different.

• Architecture is regulated IT is not.

• architecutre has lots of zero, most of the time IT does not. ~1 million $ versus ~10k $ roughly for a sense of scale.

The pattern of behavior is different also.

architecutre has large teams of specialist.

IT has smaller teams and althoguht there are specialist, often there is a lone specialis who does a job, for exmaple one "enterprise architect" , one DBA, one network person.

arhcitecture doens't involve itself with on going aspect after build as much as IT. IT has support depeartments, architect typically walk away from builds after build is done. LEED changes that. But for the most part this is true.

so IT does the architecture owrk, but it also does the janitorial work.

Timelines and planning

• http://hmhai.com/design-phases/

• https://www.archtoolbox.com/representation/specifications/project-planning-and-scheduling.html
  • got notes on critical path

Further reading

Design Assist https://www.bdcnetwork.com/design-assist-way-really-fly-aia-course

Information architecture , http://journalofia.org/volume3/issue2/03-resmini/ loosely related :P