OSS stepping stone or wet cement

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
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Not sure about your parts of the world, but I’ve noticed the terms “tactical” (ie stepping stone solution) and “strategic” (ie long-term solution) entering the architectural vernacular here in Australia.

OSS seem to be full of tactical solutions. We’re always on a journey to somewhere else. I love that mindset – getting moving now, but still keeping the future in mind. There’s just one slight problem… how many times have we seen a tactical solution that was build years before? Perhaps it’s not actually a problem at all in some cases – the short-term fix is obviously “good enough” to have survived.

As a colleague insightfully pointed out last week – “if you create a tactical solution without also preparing a strategic solution, you don’t have a tactical solution, you have a solution.

When architecting your OSS solutions, do you find yourself more easily focussing on the tactical, the strategic, or is having an eye on both the essential part of your solution?

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