Our founder Daniel Simon ran a session about handling tradeoffs between insight and usability in business architecture at the Lean Leader Summit that took place in Munich from 10 to 11 June 2026.
Using the capability map as an example, Daniel illustrated the tradeoffs practitioners face using business architecture artifacts, with which organizations seek to gain big picture insights for better strategic and organizational alignment, while at the same time they expect those artifacts to be readily understood and used by a wide range of stakeholders in the organization, letting them “see themselves within the maps.” This was followed by an exchange around approaches of how to effectively handle such tradeoffs.