In this paper Ceri describes how an Enterprise Architect can and must transcend the limits of an engineering approach and embrace multiple, inconsistent versions of the truth.

The previous paper in this series highlighted the boundary limit of ‘hard systems’ – that an engineering approach excludes consideration of psychological, social and cultural factors, and makes a key assumption that there is one ‘version of the truth’.

In this paper Ceri Williams explores that boundary more closely through the eyes of an Enterprise Architect in a set of challenging situations. Through storytelling, he describes how an Enterprise Architect can and must transcend the limits of an engineering approach and embrace multiple, inconsistent versions of the truth – making Enterprise Architecture accessible.