A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the Well Architected Project delivery team at #PolishDreamin26 organised by coffee&force – Salesforce portal / foundation 🥰
It was super fun 😆 because I made it engaging for the audience.
For example (and tell me if this resonates with you!!) …
👉🏻I asked the audience to raise their hands if they’d ever worked with a PM who agreed to a timeline that skipped proper testing. 🤭
Lots of hands shot up.
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👉🏻I asked who’d seen a BA lock in requirements so tight the system couldn’t survive a single business change.
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👉🏻I asked who’d watched a client sign off UAT without a single real end user in the room, then wonder why adoption failed at go-live.
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The thing is… none of those people were bad at their jobs.
They just didn’t see themselves as having any responsibility for the architecture.
And that’s the problem.
The architect should be the FINAL voice.
Not the only voice.
If you were there at my talk, let me know below in the comments – I hope you had fun!
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#WellArchitectedFramework and the TEA 🫖🍵🧋 an acronym Louise Lockie shared that made it so easy to remember!
