15 Architecture modernization enabling teams

If the most challenging part of modernization is getting started, then the second most challenging part is sustaining the momentum. Modernization is technology change, organizational change, and cultural change. You are swimming upstream against how things have always been done, and if you don’t maintain high levels of commitment, your modernization will get washed away, and things will be back as they were before.

An Architecture Modernization Enabling Team (AMET) is one solution for resisting the forces of inertia. An AMET’s mission is to ensure modernization keeps progressing via various means, from organizing workshops to coaching teams to keeping modernization high on the agenda when other priorities, like BAU work and bug fixes, compete for people’s limited time.

15.1 AMET primary purposes

15.1.1 Kickstarting modernization

15.1.2 Sustaining modernization momentum

15.1.3 Facilitating better design

15.1.4 Facilitating long-lasting, durable change:

15.1.5 Communicating the vision and progress

15.1.6 Promoting success stories and learnings

15.2 Industry Example: Enabling modernization at a European Telco

15.3 Winding down an AMET

15.3.1 Evolving investment and involvement

15.3.2 Establishing an architecture operating model

15.4 Staffing an AMET

15.4.1 Patience and relationship building.

15.4.2 Should an AMET be full-time?

15.4.3 Bringing in external help

15.5 Naming an AMET

15.6 An AMET is not always necessary

15.7 Summary