The Common Defense: We’re Doing IT Architecture, Not EA
- Sunil Dutt Jha
- Apr 25
- 3 min read
Most teams don’t deny Enterprise Architecture anymore. They step down from it.
...we’re not doing EA. We’re doing IT Architecture.
At first glance, that sounds reasonable. A scoped position. A focused role.
But when we examine what actually exists inside most programs, a different picture emerges.
What is being called “IT Architecture” is often:
Cloud service selection
IAM configuration
API contracts
CI/CD pipelines
Deployment automation
These are all valid activities. But they are not architecture.
Stage 1 — The Real Problem Statement
The issue is not that teams are not doing Enterprise Architecture.
The issue is:
What is being done does not qualify even as IT Architecture.
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