Building a new solution in an existing environment is always difficult.
Making it in a big company is more difficult.
Trying to do it in a regulated organization is almost impossible.
But what makes it really impossible is when everybody has it's own idea on what the new solution should be, should do and should fit into the existing landscape!
A couple of days ago there had been a meeting to try to make a bit more clarity on what the scope of our team work is, involving a number of "solution", "enterprise", "integration" architects.
I thought it would be the right opportunity to understand the big picture and learn from these "big guys".
I was wrong, totally wrong!
They started talking on a slide depicting an application flow, discussing what was the meaning of one or the other component drawn in the picture, arguing on the right sequence of the interactions...
After some minutes I started having a strong headache... and in a short stopped listening to them, or better listening just enough to catch if they were saying something not matching my vision and putting it in risk of being disrupted by their assumptions and conclusions.
The worst feeling was that they were discussing on things that we should then have to implement, but they were not taking into any consideration if such things where or not achievable.
That meeting really created a strong WE vs THEM feeling.
