Session:An Architect's Competencies and Duties--Paper Preview
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Setting up an Architect Team
Poornachandra Sarang
An in-house architecture team helps the organizations in meeting the challenges of the ever-changing IT industry. The paper after briefly discussing the importance of architecture describes the desired structure for an architect team and defines the roles and responsibilities of the various team members. The paper defines the expectations from the organization during the team building process and suggests the required investments and the time lines for setting up the team.
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Training initiative for new Software/Enterprise architects: an ontological approach
Anabel Fraga, Juan Llorens
In this paper, we describe the importance of new Software/Enterprise architects in the discipline of Software Architecture and Enterprise Architecture. Both are often idealized as super heroes with a lot of qualities that are very infrequent in contemporary people. The Enterprise/Software Architect role could be assumed by a group of people able to manage the qualities for the role. In any case, even a group or a single person must be educated in the discipline by training courses, new methodologies of learning, or traditional university studies. In order to improve the process of becoming a new architect we propose a methodology based on ontological structures and reinforcement learning.
The Duties, Skills, and Knowledge of Software Architects
Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Mark Klein, Divya Devesh, Shivani Reddy, Prageti Verma
This paper focuses on the human aspects of architecting software—in particular, the duties, skills, and knowledge of software architects. We present the results of a survey of approximately 200 public sources of information aimed at professional software architects that we conducted in the summer of 2006. We summarize what those sources have to say about the duties, skills, and knowledge that competent architects must perform and have.
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