Optimist, pessimist or realist?
This is a delicate problem.
You are the bride's best friend and you are not comfortable with her choise of husband. The wedding is next week and the the question is if to say anything or not.
Retrospective
By the end of the year is it valuable to make a retrospective summary of the last year and start a fresh new year after New Year.
When architecture maturity is to low
Does architecture maturity matter? Do I have to exercises regularly in order to succeed with a marathon?
Some directions, please
As an enterprise architect you could not work in a vacuum. Even if the maturity in the organisation is low, we need some kind of directions from the business side.
Your IT-system have a best before date
When you buy groceries, you know that they have a best before date and your wouldn't dream of using it long time after that day have passed. With IT-systems, it's the same as with milk. It's perfectly good when you buy it and store it under right conditions, but when its getting to old, you don't use it event if the packet is half full.