How to sell IT Architecture?

AGENDA:

18:00 HOW TO SELL IT ARCHITECTURE?
Have you ever had a brilliant idea and designed a great application or solution but the project was dropped by the business side? Did you ever define the IT Strategy or Architectural Principles but the business or dev teams bought/built a solution that wasn't compliant?

Every IT Architect - Application, Solution, Domain, Platform, Enterprise - has the same problems but on different levels of stakeholders. During the meetup, we want to discuss with you the possible ways of identifying the key stakeholders and ways of communication with them... Join us, see what we advise and share your ideas with others!

19:10 WHY IMPERFECTION IS BETTER?
In the early days, computer software and hardware was the domain of scientists, seeking for perfection, isolating uncertainty at all cost. Those solutions were aimed for harmony and beauty. But now engineers took the lead. Recent years has shown, that accepting imperfection can be much more fruitful. We live in age of imperfect solutions and as shown by examples during this lecture, they are so much better

PRELEGENTS:
Rafal Wasilewski - systems and solutions designer with over 10 years experience in large, complex environments with unique experience in various segments of IT and business.

Maciej Kubicki - an Enterprise Architect with extensive professional experience in Polish and international financial institutions; he has the knowledge of the issues of organisation of the work of agile IT teams. He designs comprehensive IT architecture for businesses.