How to Explain Spec-Driven Architecture to Each Stakeholder

This chapter is a field guide for talking about spec-driven enterprise architecture with the stakeholders an architect actually meets. The architecture function does not control the vocabulary of its audience. An architect who tries to translate every conversation back into Codex language loses the audience. Each section that follows takes a stakeholder group, states the concern that group brings, shows where the Codex meets that concern, and offers a short tagline the architect can carry into the meeting.

What the chapter covers

10 sections, in order.

19.1 Software architects and platform engineers
19.2 Solution architects
19.3 Enterprise architects
19.4 Data architects
19.5 CIO, CTO, and executive sponsor
19.6 Compliance, audit, risk, and regulatory affairs
19.7 AI and agent product owners
19.8 Procurement and vendor management
19.9 Security architects and the CISO
19.10 Delivery leads, product managers, and Agile release train engineers

The rest of this chapter

The published chapter runs the argument through all 10 sections above. This page reproduces its structure and every exhibit; the analysis is in the book.