The Modern Sourcing Engine — From Build vs. Buy to the BBEC Framework is the first volume of The Agile Enterprise Playbook, a five-book series built on the FOCUS Methodology — an execution-oriented framework for CTOs, enterprise architects, and technology leaders navigating the Gen AI era under GDPR, the EU AI Act, NIS2, and DORA.
"Build vs. Buy" is dead. Every sourcing decision today is a multi-dimensional strategic exercise involving digital sovereignty, vendor lock-in, financial accountability, and AI readiness. This book replaces the binary dilemma with the BBEC Framework — Buy, Build, Extend, Compose — and gives you the full toolkit to execute it:
- Strategic positioning with Wardley Mapping and Core vs. Context analysis, including EU sovereignty considerations
- Domain discovery through Event Storming, Value Stream Mapping, JTBD, and MoSCoW interrogation
- The BBEC verdict engine: Fit/Gap Traceability Matrix, Business Fitness Score, Plugin Test, and open-source "Fork Tax" management
- Financial modeling that defeats optimism bias: 50/90 range estimation, Capers Jones multipliers, Cost of Delay, and real options
- Governance via the Architecture Decision Workflow, ADRs with sunset clauses, weighted scoring, and decommissioning discipline
Written for practitioners in or trading with the EU, this is not a theoretical manifesto. Each chapter pairs the theory with a step-by-step methodology and real-world executions — from GenAI customer support agents to fintech scale-ups — so you can move your organization from feature factory to a secure-by-design, compliant-by-default, AI-ready enterprise.
