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Fri Feb 23 10:02:46 GMT 2007 CTOArchitect is like a CEO Posted by: Hacking Bear on ?? 29, 2007 in response to Message #226202 An architect to a development team is like a CEO to a company. What does a CEO do? Well... depends on which company you talk about. Some play golf all the times. (When I was in China, they correctly translate the title as the "Chief Eating Officer.") But in most places (read "small",) they also stayed up late and write documents and designs, like the one in my current shop in the Silicon Valley. Some others also do cleaning and making coffee in the office. If you become an architect, unless you are extremely lucky (or unlucky, depending on your point of view,) you would be like the former type: doing no real stuff and making empty talk. For some, like what I've been through, you have to work on everything from making marketing PowerPoint to fixes unit tests and build scripts. Maybe you can be spared of writing marketing PPT but probably nothing else. When I was a developer, I didn't need to worry about much of what happens above the product module. Do you still want to be an architect? http://www.theserverside.com[..]011&asrc=EM_NLN_953413&uid=703565#226387 Below is a more serious and formal discussion about architect role... not sure which one closer to most organization - http://www.from9till2.com[..]uid=0f47a7aa-66d8-4229-989f-afbe3ae7d8bf (google search) (amazon search) second |