I consistenly disagree with his diagrams, and often enough with his articles, but I think the diagrams draw a better picture (pun intended) for our different points of view.

When you’re drawing a diagram that tries to fit as many buzzwords as possible into a limited rectangle, you end up having to simplify things for the sake of non-overlapping text labels. Counter that, you’re also creating an overly complex picture to fit all these buzzwords inside. It looks impressive, but does it mean anything?

“Agile/lean methods, though increasingly popular in the enterprise, are often tame compared to Web 2.0 methods.”

The Web 2.0 methods I’m seeing, especially where innovation is taking place, have much more creativity, fluidity and intuition than depicted in the diagram. That, of course, makes for very boring architecture diagrams. But it leads to better solutions.