Enterprise architecture is about strategy and guidelines, but in the end you need to have an implemented process with tools to get business rolling.

This is a variant of Lyndon Johnson’s iron law of politics: that successful politicians must learn how to count.

You need to find enough of stakeholders that will accept your Architecture design. One way of doing this is to present a hypothesis to them and see how they react. 

As Enterprise Architect in an organisation, you don’t have any formal decision power, and you don’t have any P&L responsibilities.

Do I need to know privacy regulations as an enterprise architect? 

Normally as an EA, those requirements were managed by the legal department, but with #GDPR and Privacy by Design, this is something you need to take into account when designing architectures.

Privacy is much more important today than a few years ago, but what does this mean for a film production company?