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Architects have two primary purposes (not roles): 1) Facilitate that architecture and design happens in teams (dev or not) 2) Ensure coherency of architecture
by loopz 7y ago
Architects have two primary purposes (not roles):
1) Facilitate that architecture and design happens in teams (dev or not)
2) Ensure coherency of architecture
That's it folks!
- tyingq 7y agoThat seems right. City planner seems more apt than chess master.
- jaggederest 7y agoI used to joke that the term "business-to-engineering psychologist" was more descriptive than "software architect". You had to know how to get people to agree a lot more than how to get technology to work together, especially in "larger organizations". It's politics, pure and simple - most of the conflict isn't technical.
- mehh 7y agodamn right!
- dehrmann 7y agoMost places I've worked use the architect title to retain people.
- pjmlp 7y agoIn many companies architects is just a synonym for a project manager that happens to also grok UML.