[verse 1, confident, instrumental: boom bap beat] Yeah, I'm in the Cloud, architecting all day Diagramming options the agile way My Miro skills are absolutely elite While stakeholders demand the impossible feat They want maintainability and extensibility, Security and privacy and accessibility! My PowerPoints are packed with four-quadrant views Yet project deadlines tighten the screws [chorus, operatic, dramatic, instrumental: orchestral] What’s the key? Business capability! Our enterprise’s evolvability! The capability map tames uncertainty, Aligning roadmaps for eternity! [verse 2, assertive, instrumental: boom bap beat] Strategic initiatives flood my inbox daily SharePoint and Salesforce are driving me crazy They ask for AI, with timelines cut down, While many requirements make architects frown They want adaptability, mobility, facility, Elastic scalability and profitability The capability model's our guiding light But a sea of opinions obscures our sight [chorus, operatic, dramatic] What’s the key? Business capability! Our enterprise’s evolvability! The capability map tames uncertainty, Aligning roadmaps for eternity! [bridge, build-up, instrumental: minimal beat with tension] In meetings and all hands, we discuss Priority and strategy and visibility, Velocity, security, and reliability And of course (of course!) THE BUSINESS CAPABILITY! (We must create capability map!) [verse 3, intense, instrumental: return to beat/fuller beat] Higher velocity is our ambition Living in JIRA, it’s our condition Give us priorities clear and few With processes designed to follow through Utility, agility, and configurability And also, usability, interoperability We architect solutions not allowed to build And document templates that leave me unfulfilled [chorus, operatic, dramatic] What’s the key? Business capability! Our enterprise’s evolvability! The capability map — our sacred decree, But no one agrees what it’s meant to be. [outro, inspirational, instrumental: beat with inspirational strings] So, raise your slide decks high in the air For enterprise architects everywhere We optimize, strategize and standardize While Confluence pages multiply before our eyes A galactic ballet, each system aligned Our patterns of logic, beautifully timed We’re masters of change, defenders of flow Keeping the uptime high and latency low We're the masters of adaptability The guardians of system availability We separate domains to achieve flexibility, We anchor the mess in reusability. And when we map it all, what does it mean? Just boxes and arrows in a slide deck dream. [soft disappearing voice, fade-out] Quality, maturity, transparency, efficiency Capacity, verbosity, and legacy dependency (Accountability, Compatibility, Feasibility, Modifiability, Observability, Portability, Readability, Recoverability, Reversibility, Testability, and Traceability!) Oh yeah! We mapped it all… in theory We mapped it all... but forgot delivery.
