Real World Enterprise Architecture

Why Are Enterprises So Complex?

Real World Enterprise Architecture

Show Notes

In several previous episodes I’ve said that an enterprise in not like other kinds of systems. It’s much more complex. In this episode I’d like to get into why that’s true, what it is about an enterprise that makes it a very special kind of system.

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