Their challenge is both the cost of making changes to old legacy systems as well as the time to develop and implement those changes. The complexity increases gradually year from year and the business side demands even more flexibility and shorter lead time.
When developing architectures for an organization, a good recommendation is to make incremental deliveries at regular intervals instead of a complete architecture covering everything after a year or two.
After reading Creativity, Inc., it became very clear how very similar the two different disciplines are.
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.
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.