Many things in this organization operate in siloes - business functions, business processes, IT applications, infrastructure teams etc - it’s the nature of organizations. However, this can add cost, complexity, and risk because different teams go in different directions, duplicating things or conflicting with each other - IT is not aligned with the business, or the business itself is not aligned. In addition, each team / silo is naturally incented to make decisions that are best for them, but not necessarily best for the org as a whole - who is looking at the overall big picture?

Intro Successful digital transformation requires a focus on enterprise architecture, whether improving the system’s or application’s architecture or implementing strategies like API standardization. For an enterprise to practice architecture in an agile environment, several architects and designers must support the project’s agile value streams, which are the actions taken from conception to delivery and support that add value to a product or service. One organization may have a different team of architects producing solution designs and templates.