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Original Post: Revenge of the "Enterprise Architect"
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I feel sorry for Bruce, Kris Thompson, and the other lads on their project.
I don't feel sorry for them JUST because they have to work with eachother, but rather due to the revenge of the "Enterprise Architect".
The story that Bruce tells is a common one in large companies. One large company gets in bed with another (insert one of: IBM Global Services, Accenture, EDS, etc) and this relationship leads to nightmare projects.
The gang seemed like they had snuck by this problem. In their last project they used open source software and it was the most succesful project ever! You would think that people would learn from that, and it appeared that they had... as in this project they got to start from where they left off.
That is until the inevitable happened. Mr. Enterprise Architect says that Spring/XDoclet/... is FAR too simple and robust, and that they have to migrate everything to the IBM stack. Oh momma.
Let people do their job. It is tempting to write up a dev equivilent of the Bastard Operator from Hell, but I guess that is Dilbert :)
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