Episode 93 — Solution Architecture
The world is changing faster than one might think, or at least it appears this way … and nobody seems to do solution architecture anymore.
And plenty of organizations seem to have given up on planning what they are doing and changing in their system landscape, organizations, processes, etc. But that is wrong. You need to describe the changes so that you can agree on things and everyone is on the same page (and understands the direction, goals, and measurements going forward).
In this episode of the podcast, we talk about:
- A quick review of Season 8, and what happens here at What’s Your Baseline?
- What is solution architecture?
- How does it fit into the solution lifecycle
- Benefits of having a solution architecture
- Where in the organization should solution architects be located?
- The network of solution architectures and how to manage those
- What do you need to do solution architecture in your organization (tools, approach)?
- Elements/steps when creating the solution architecture
- How do you implement this capability (waterfall, agile, devops)?
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Additional information
- Here is the Solution Lifecycle graphic to visualize the topic that we spoke about early in the episode
- The 2×2 graphic of Architect archetypes
- Episodes that we referenced in this episode:
Credits
Music by Jeremy Voltz, www.jeremyvoltzmusic.com
Roland Woldt is a well-rounded executive with 25+ years of Business Transformation consulting and software development/system implementation experience, in addition to leadership positions within the German Armed Forces (11 years).
He has worked as Team Lead, Engagement/Program Manager, and Enterprise/Solution Architect for many projects. Within these projects, he was responsible for the full project life cycle, from shaping a solution and selling it, to setting up a methodological approach through design, implementation, and testing, up to the rollout of solutions.
In addition to this, Roland has managed consulting offerings during their lifecycle from the definition, delivery to update, and had revenue responsibility for them.
Roland has had many roles: VP of Global Consulting at iGrafx, Head of Software AG’s Global Process Mining CoE, Director in KPMG’s Advisory (running the EA offering for the US firm), and other leadership positions at Software AG/IDS Scheer and Accenture. Before that, he served as an active-duty and reserve officer in the German Armed Forces.
