Weblog:	Business Process Expert – Solutions Architect extended ?
Subject:	Can a solution architect have a technical bias?
Date:	2006-11-30 20:04:43
From:	Marilyn Pratt  Business Card
Welcome to the BPX community, Jagannadh Ketavarapu and yes the discussion is already in full progress: BPX? A Techno functional Consultant? There are many who claim that the business process experts or the business process management professionals who are emerging now are coming mostly from the IT side, but perhaps that is because this very discussion is located in a framework that is traditionally IT centric. You raise an interesting and provocative question when you write: " A business process guy might not be a person who can evaluate the feasibility of a solution while he/she conceptualizes". I wonder how the community will weigh-in. And I wonder as well, do we have a "technical" bias here?

Previous Message Next Message  Showing messages 1 through 2 of 2. Titles Only Main Topics Newest First Can a solution architect have a technical bias? 2006-11-30 22:46:30 Jagannadh Ketavarapu Business Card [Reply] Let me thank you for the interest you have shown in my first ever blog. To answer your question I just wanted to highlight the importance of a technical feasibility (wherever applicable) for any solution conceptualised. My intention was not to spark off a controversy - whether a BPX has the tecbhical knowledge or not? or does a solution architect should have a technical bias? Application, solution, or technology? 2006-12-02 21:09:54 Marilyn Pratt  Business Card [Reply] Hi Jagannadh, I'm sure your blog doesn't spark a controvesy, but instead it can spark a very interesting dialouge and thanks very much for posting. Should a BPX be viewing the business needs as projects to be managed with solutions? When one says solutions does that mean applications? Is it the job of the BPX to be focused on servicing business needs with enabling technologies and should the BPX have a deep understanding of those technologies? Is a solution architect coming from IT? Who should do the leading, in this scenario? IT? Business? These are some of the questions your blog could prompt. Showing messages 1 through 2 of 2.

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