Interesting discussion on the TOGAF course this morning. Quite a good conversation across the room kicked off by the concept of a architecture board in TOGAF. Ideally you want your most senior executives on this forum, but the point is - do they care? do they have time? Do they really understand? In an organisation like the one I work for, it's very difficult to get senior management to care about EA let alone even understand it. If we had the right type of buy-in, then getting decisions made on architectural changes should become very straight forward. I don't even know if this is strictly architecture governance issue, it's really a wider IT governance issue that helps any IT capability move forwards. So I'm left thinking - if you don't have effective IT governance how can you effectively setup architecture governance?