System Architecture Role
Having been a systems architect for last four years, I feel I can talk about being an architects better now, than I could 4 years back. Before being an architect, I admired the documents, the artifacts and the diagrams they created, honestly I was intimidated by it. Now after 4+ years, I feel that is the easiest thing to do as an architect. I have put some of my thought together, and these are somethings that have worked for me. Architect I feel is just a liaison between the business team and the technology team, well, the statement seems too simple, it does get complicated as you dive deeper. For someone to be a good architect, most important thing is to understand the business requirement and also be technically competent. If you are in sync with the product owner or the analyst, 90% of the battle is won. The product owner wants to build an application, they have a release date, the product goal, and the budget. Now the architect has to make it happen based on it....