Many large organizations are setting up repositories for architectural models using tools like Sparx EA, BizzDesign and ARIS. Some of these repositories work well, others quickly develop quality issues or turn into write-only spaces. The speakers have been involved in several implementations of architecture repositories in large national and international organizations. They share their lessons learned and point out the dos and don’ts.

Michiel Perdeck, Wouter Paul Trienekens & Eltjo Poort, CGI

Consumentenbond wants to reposition itself in the market. We like to offer a personalized mobile-first experience to a younger audience. Our approach changes: we become data driven and work through self-organizing teams. IT architecture changes as well; we take an Agile approach, but balance short term and long term requirements. The IT Architect discusses the first year of this new strategy.
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Martin de Boer, Consumentenbond

Bol.com’s IT architecture consists of A LOT of applications (800+), managed by A LOT of teams (100+). Understanding this landscape from a functional and technical perspective at various levels of detail is becoming an ever growing challenge. With a combined team of architects and developers we’ve taken on this challenge and created a tool named ‘Software Parade’. It takes the deployment descriptors of our IT landscape to automatically visualize the as-is production landscape at various levels of detail. This tool provides valuable insights to not only architects and developers, but also to product owners and business analysts. It offers its users an ultra-hyperlinked world where they you jump from domain, to applications, to related applications, to the responsible team, etc. etc.
We would love to share with you how this tool helps us to evaluate and improve our architecture, and to be more in control of changes.

Kristel Nieuwenhuys & Roland Willems, Bol.com

With the developments in ICT systems become smarter and integrated. Thus, a reshaping of the innovation and business strategies of enterprises is required. The integration of multiple, heterogeneous systems for creating additional business value leads to a so-called system-of-systems (SoS) that cross the boundaries of a single organization. In this talk, I will discuss the main trends related to SoS, its’ challenges, and its impact on the innovation and business strategy in practice.

Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University

The holy grail of architects are generic solutions. But despite intentions, applications within the national government are often specific solutions for specific problems. This results in high maintainance costs, outdated technology and scarce knowledge. But the most severe consequence is lack of agility. At the same time the citizens expect high quality service delivery. To enable this, DICTU offers RijksZaak: a platform for government service delivery. It offers agility, stays up-to-date whilst delivering the essential component to support government service delivery.

Wim van der Lingen, Dienst ICT Uitvoering van het Ministerie van Economische Zaken en Klimaat

You need vision to formulate a strategy but you are nowhere without the people in your organization contributing to and accepting your work. In our opinion succesful strategy formulation and implementation is a highly collaborative effort. We present the way we think about strategy formulation, implementation, dealing with legacy in systems, processes and old way thinking based on theory but above all the lessons learnt from our experiences in the past few years.

Jan-Willem Arnold, KNMI &
Corline Koolhaas, KNMI

Modern product-led organizations require a radically different approach to architecture. At bol.com we believe teams should be able to make their own decisions with architecture in mind. We will tell you all about our pragmatic approach to architecture and how we position architects as informal leaders and silo busters who enable continuous innovation within the growing agile organization of bol.com with 100+ autonomous teams.

Elinor Bakker, Bol.com &
Marcel van Leeuwen, Bol.com

The role of the architect is changing. The world is going from waterfall and silos to agile and multi-disciplinary. Build to last becomes design for change. How can the architect continue being the technical conscience of ‘the business’? How can the architect stay relevant? How can the architect become agile? Is the agile architect a myth, concocted by today’s agile hype, or is it a being of legend?

Iwan Eising, Arc-E-Tect

Organizations must design software solutions that are sustainable and enable sustainable development goals. To this aim, we advocate treating sustainability as a software quality property and defined a method that helps make sustainability-driven design decisions. It relies on defining decision maps, i.e. views framing the architecture design concerns around four sustainability dimensions – technical, economic, social and environmental sustainability. The talk will illustrate the power of decision maps and reflect on how to quantify the sustainability impact of related decisions.

Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

MedMij (www.medmij.nl) is *the* scheme in the Netherlands for exchanging health data between citizens and health service providers. Born, and growing, amidst a diversity of ambitions, forces, business models, interests, and dependencies, its architecture (www.afsprakenstelsel.medmij.nl) provides rules of the game, ensuring trustworthiness and interoperability among participants, across and between aspects and layers, and oscillating between strategy and detail. Meet MedMij’s architecture, pick up key lessons, and play a role in shaping its future.

Paul Oude Luttighuis, Le Blanc Advies

This talk addresses the complex social dynamics behind aligning EMRs in hospitals, and the ways that architecture may effectively contribute to these dynamics. Insights are taken from three recent EMR implementations in Dutch hospitals, and the continued quest for alignment after their go-live. Anyone looking to efficaciously apply architecture while facing complexity may find this interesting, in healthcare or elsewhere.
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Pien Walraven, Open University of the Netherlands

Make things small so that your organisation can learn
Two years ago we’ve started the Jumbo Tech Campus, our goal is to help Jumbo to become more of a Tech company. We like to tell our story on how we have built the Jumbo Tech Campus. On how we have organised ourselves (Architecture over Architects). How we built our culture (Participation over Governance) and how we changed our technology stack in such a way that all this is actually possible (covering more or less all the others statements in the DADD Manifesto). We will share some of our best-practices and also some of our failures and how we learned from it. Within Jumbo we say, ‘every day better’ and we like to share some insights on how we do that.

Anneke Keller, Jumbo Tech Campus & Gosse Reinsma, Jumbo Supermarkten