The Sunil (ICMG) – Sean / Shyam (Name changed for privacy) Exchange. This interaction highlights a recurring pattern among software development teams — where the concept of “Architecture” is reduced to tool usage, buzzwords, templates, and a handful of diagrams, instead of being understood as a model of enterprise anatomy.

This interaction highlights a subtle but recurring pattern in the global Enterprise Architecture community — where practitioners appear aligned in language but remain fundamentally divided in meaning.

Custom Screens. Custom Logic. One Core System.Your platform serves dozens of institutional clients. Each has:A different onboarding screen. Custom eligibility rules.Branded dashboards. Specialized workflows for approval or document upload. Yet underneath, it’s the same product. When it’s time for a platform release: One client’s change breaks another’s UI. A shared component fails due to unexpected variant behavior. o