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This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph
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Simon Rohrer - Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of Thinking @SimonRohrer
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Links
youtu.be/hhlxFtV_tZo
martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/whoNeedsArchitect.pdf
martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html
youtu.be/_9vi70yFBDg
hbr.org/2020/01/taming-complexity
linkedin.com/posts/johnpcutler_im-working-on-an-addition-to-this-thought-activity-7301284507452612608-2Qm5
ABSTRACT
The modern enterprise has evolved in many ways since some of the typical Enterprise Architecture principles and practices emerged.
In this talk, Simon Rohrer will explain how the nature of the modern enterprise means many legacy Enterprise Architecture principles and practices are no longer applicable.
He makes some suggestions on how a modern EA practice can incorporate agile, DevOps, Systems Thinking and socio-technical ways of working at scale to achieve both short term business value, as well as effecting long term technology and organisation transformation - supporting better value, sooner, safer and happier; breaking dependencies rather than managing them.
Simon's experience comes from over 10 years of leading and practicing Modern Enterprise Architecture in large, highly regulated, long-lived organisations with significant legacy technology estates. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
02:05 What is modern enterprise architecture?
02:48 Agenda
03:26 Where are we & how did we get here?
08:37 A: Aligning people, value & tech
17:00 B: Better Value Sooner Safer Happier
22:08 C: Continuous conversational & automated governance
28:10 D: DevOps at enterprise scale
32:05 E: Evolutionary enterprise architecture
37:09 Summary
37:34 Outro
Download slides and read the full abstract here:
gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3621
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Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
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Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition • amzn.to/3lqr5Q8
Roger Sessions • Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises • amzn.to/4ggGN9j
Stephen Fishman & Matt McLarty • Unbundling the Enterprise • amzn.to/3W2EcXw
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • amzn.to/3tCz1xO
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • amzn.to/47oAf3l
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gotocph.com
Simon Rohrer - Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of Thinking @SimonRohrer
RESOURCES
https://bsky.app/profile/simon.bvssh.com
https://mastodon.social/@simonr
https://x.com/sirohrer
linkedin.com/in/simonrohrer
github.com/sirohrer
soonersaferhappier.com
Links
youtu.be/hhlxFtV_tZo
martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/whoNeedsArchitect.pdf
martinfowler.com/articles/designDead.html
youtu.be/_9vi70yFBDg
hbr.org/2020/01/taming-complexity
linkedin.com/posts/johnpcutler_im-working-on-an-addition-to-this-thought-activity-7301284507452612608-2Qm5
ABSTRACT
The modern enterprise has evolved in many ways since some of the typical Enterprise Architecture principles and practices emerged.
In this talk, Simon Rohrer will explain how the nature of the modern enterprise means many legacy Enterprise Architecture principles and practices are no longer applicable.
He makes some suggestions on how a modern EA practice can incorporate agile, DevOps, Systems Thinking and socio-technical ways of working at scale to achieve both short term business value, as well as effecting long term technology and organisation transformation - supporting better value, sooner, safer and happier; breaking dependencies rather than managing them.
Simon's experience comes from over 10 years of leading and practicing Modern Enterprise Architecture in large, highly regulated, long-lived organisations with significant legacy technology estates. [...]
TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
02:05 What is modern enterprise architecture?
02:48 Agenda
03:26 Where are we & how did we get here?
08:37 A: Aligning people, value & tech
17:00 B: Better Value Sooner Safer Happier
22:08 C: Continuous conversational & automated governance
28:10 D: DevOps at enterprise scale
32:05 E: Evolutionary enterprise architecture
37:09 Summary
37:34 Outro
Download slides and read the full abstract here:
gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3621
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie & Simon Rohrer • Sooner Safer Happier • amzn.to/3Emm9p2
Mik Kersten • Project to Product • amzn.to/4zuuZJI
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • amzn.to/3sVLyLQ
Vlad Khononov • Balancing Coupling in Software Design • amzn.to/4iGpbDv
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition • amzn.to/3lqr5Q8
Roger Sessions • Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises • amzn.to/4ggGN9j
Stephen Fishman & Matt McLarty • Unbundling the Enterprise • amzn.to/3W2EcXw
Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • amzn.to/3tCz1xO
Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • amzn.to/47oAf3l
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linkedin.com/company/goto-
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#SoftwareArchitecture #EnterpriseArchitecture #Complexity #EnterpriseScale #EvolutionaryEnterpriseArchitecture #DevOps #SystemsThinking #SimonRohrer #GOTO
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