Delivering strategic architectural transformation
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The shift from legacy to digital infrastructure is central to many companies’ strategy to compete in a fast-changing world. But at the architectural level, such change can be hard — or at least expensive — to effect. Not everyone wants to break things when they move fast.
In this episode, our hosts, Zhamak Dehghani and Mike Mason are joined by Ryan Murray, Director of Digital Platforms at ThoughtWorks, to consider how organizations can transform themselves through a deeper understanding of their systems, the information and their business capabilities — and the interrelation between these things.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | My name is Mike Mason and I'm one of your hosts. |
| 0:15.1 | And I'm here with two guests today, Jemak and Ryan. |
| 0:19.1 | I'll ask them to introduce themselves. |
| 0:24.4 | Hi, I'm Jemak Deganyi. I'm a tech consultant from our San Francisco office. And hi, I'm Ryan Murray. I'm the director of our digital |
| 0:29.2 | platform strategy team and I'll be also based out of our San Francisco office. And so today we're |
| 0:34.6 | going to be talking about strategic architectural transformation and all of the stuff that goes with that. |
| 0:40.7 | The thing that I really love when talking about architecture is that everybody has a different viewpoint on what architecture even means. |
| 0:48.3 | So if we're talking about strategic architectural transformation, Ryan, can you just give us 30 seconds |
| 0:55.4 | on what you think that is? What is architectural transformation? Why do we need to do it? |
| 1:01.0 | Sure, Mike. I think there's a lot of ways to interpret architecture that are all valid. |
| 1:06.0 | We do a lot of work with customers around architecture and platforms, and those words have |
| 1:10.0 | meanings at lots of levels. At the level of strategic architecture, I think what we're really talking about is how |
| 1:15.9 | broad systems interconnect within the enterprise to allow kind of the macro value proposition |
| 1:21.3 | to be delivered. And that's across many teams and many different parts of the technology stack. |
| 1:27.2 | So less about |
| 1:28.2 | sort of technology details and more about how information and business capabilities are exposed |
| 1:33.0 | and flow within the organization. I almost wish you hadn't asked this question because |
| 1:37.0 | there we can spend half an hour talking about what architecture is. But if one lens to look at it is |
| 1:42.6 | decomposition of the systems or the components at the application |
| 1:47.4 | level or at the system level or at the organizational level. |
| 1:50.8 | So I think under the umbrella of architectural transformation, we're talking about the whole |
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