Vincenzo Marchese

Why many IT Architects increasingly prefer the ‘Principal Engineer’ title? Looking back over the past few years, I have observed a noticeable erosion in the perceived value of 'Architect' title (not necessarily role) across many organisations. Once regarded as an aspirational role for many engineers (including myself) and a cornerstone for translating business ambitions into robust technological solutions, the traditional IT architect title has increasingly been overshadowed by more dynamic...

[Originally publishes in 2013] Building and maintaining a mature architecting capability is not cheap, especially in large global organisations. Typically, with a program/project portfolio in the hundreds, it is impossible to assign good architects to cover the entire portfolio. Even merely trying to achieve an effective architecture governance, well integrated with the broader IT governance processes, is in itself challenging and often impossible for a portfolio of that size! Relatively to...

Architecting is the combination of people (regardless of their team names or job titles), methods, information and supporting tools that allow an organization to consistently produce IT products with a fit-for-purpose architecture, cost effectively