Beyond the Architecture Police: 80% Inspiration, 20% Automation

Why governance-driven architecture adoption fails — and what actually works when you're responsible for architecture across teams who have a hundred other priorities.

Through fictional (but painfully familiar) Slack conversations, this article walks through three phases every architect goes through: The Evangelist who publishes guidelines nobody reads, The Enforcer who adds gates nobody respects, and The Enabler who finally cracks the code — 80% inspiration, 20% automation.

Originally published on Medium.