Modern Enterprise Architecture: Architecting for Outcomes • Simon Rohrer • GOTO 2025

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2025. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph https://gotocph.com Simon Rohrer - Global Head of Enterprise Tech Architecture and Ways of Thinking ‪@SimonRohrer‬ RESOURCES https://bsky.app/profile/simon.bvssh.com https://mastodon.social/@simonr https://x.com/sirohrer   / simonrohrer   https://github.com/sirohrer https://www.soonersaferhappier.com Links    • Enterprise Architecture = Architecting the...   https://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware... https://www.martinfowler.com/articles...    • Balancing Coupling in Software Design • Vl...   https://hbr.org/2020/01/taming-comple...   / johnpcutler_im-working-on-an-addition-to-t...   ABSTRACT The modern enterprise has evolved in many ways since some of the typical Enterprise Architecture principles and practices emerged. In this talk, Simon Rohrer will explain how the nature of the modern enterprise means many legacy Enterprise Architecture principles and practices are no longer applicable. He makes some suggestions on how a modern EA practice can incorporate agile, DevOps, Systems Thinking and socio-technical ways of working at scale to achieve both short term business value, as well as effecting long term technology and organisation transformation - supporting better value, sooner, safer and happier; breaking dependencies rather than managing them. Simon's experience comes from over 10 years of leading and practicing Modern Enterprise Architecture in large, highly regulated, long-lived organisations with significant legacy technology estates. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 02:05 What is modern enterprise architecture? 02:48 Agenda 03:26 Where are we & how did we get here? 08:37 A: Aligning people, value & tech 17:00 B: Better Value Sooner Safer Happier 22:08 C: Continuous conversational & automated governance 28:10 D: DevOps at enterprise scale 32:05 E: Evolutionary enterprise architecture 37:09 Summary 37:34 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2025/sessions/3621 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Jonathan Smart, Zsolt Berend, Myles Ogilvie & Simon Rohrer • Sooner Safer Happier • https://amzn.to/3Emm9p2 Mik Kersten • Project to Product • https://amzn.to/4zuuZJI Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team Topologies • http://amzn.to/3sVLyLQ Vlad Khononov • Balancing Coupling in Software Design • https://amzn.to/4iGpbDv Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition • https://amzn.to/3lqr5Q8 Roger Sessions • Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises • https://amzn.to/4ggGN9j Stephen Fishman & Matt McLarty • Unbundling the Enterprise • https://amzn.to/3W2EcXw Forsgren, Humble & Kim • Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps • https://amzn.to/3tCz1xO Kim, Humble, Debois, Willis & Forsgren • The DevOps Handbook • https://amzn.to/47oAf3l https://bsky.app/profile/gotocon.com   / goto-     / goto_con     / gotoconferences   #SoftwareArchitecture #EnterpriseArchitecture #Complexity #EnterpriseScale #EvolutionaryEnterpriseArchitecture #DevOps #SystemsThinking #SimonRohrer #GOTO CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:    / @goto-   Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConf...