📝§ Architect role

§ Software Architecture talks about architecture as a concept. This page concentrates on architect as a role.

• What Architects do?

  • Architect’s role is bridging engineering and management

• Architecture/management duality

• § Architect vs. implementer

• Architect as guard of conceptual integrity

• Architects live in a glass house

• As an architect, allow the team to get the experience and learn

• Involve the team into design

• As a software architect, describe the theory you built

• Tone down architecture

• Conway’s law

  • Make sure the organization is compatible with the product architecture

• Be wary of wasting time documenting design decisions