A good vision can be demotivating. An architect maintains a vision (north star) for a system that is hopefully shared by at least the key stakeholders. Every step of the evolution of the architecture is taken towards to this vision. However, there are also cases where the evolution is not advancing towards this vision: it can be stagnating, maybe even moving in another direction due to uncontrollable factors. “We could be so much better, but we are still faltering in this quicksand!” Such a situation is frustrating as hell. Continue reading The demotivation by vision →