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"real architects" write code and simply hop from one team to the other so that they have a reasonable picture of the overall system and can try to guide all the
by t43562 3y ago
"real architects" write code and simply hop from one team to the other so that they have a reasonable picture of the overall system and can try to guide all the teams to make harmonious choices and possibly even reach some goal.
This still results in a lot of compromises and problems. Anyhow they should be there talking to the developers in a 2-way fashion so that then end result is not entirely "from on high".
- pydry 3y agoI haven't ever seen one of them. IME architects tend to be people who tell your team that you should be using Azure Cosmos after a Microsoft salesman takes them out to lunch. They last coded 5 years ago.
- jbmsf 3y agoThey exist - I am one - but it doesn't work unless your leadership wants someone who doesn't fit in existing hierarchies. I tend to consult and if I go somewhere where I have prior relationships with leadership, it works. If not, I get treated as part of someone's narrow reporting chain and all the incentives are wrong.
- noirbot 3y agoI've seen this even without the code - them just bouncing between teams and sitting in on many meetings and sort of being the common note-taker who then knows where almost every team is going, what they need, and what cross-team work could be done to improve everyone's life.