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| <td valign="top">This role is responsible for defining the software architecture, which includes making the key technical decisions that constrain the overall design and implementation of the project.</td> |
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| <td align="center" colspan="2" class="sectionTableCell"><p><map name="Architect"><area href="./../../openup_basic/tasks/develop_arch.html" shape="rect" coords="210, 10, 242, 42" alt="Develop the Architecture" title="Develop the Architecture"/><area href="./../../openup_basic/tasks/outline_the_architecture.html" shape="rect" coords="312, 10, 344, 42" alt="Outline the Architecture" title="Outline the Architecture"/><area href="./../../openup_basic/workproducts/architecture_notebook-1.html" shape="rect" coords="210, 87, 242, 119" alt="Architecture Notebook" title="Architecture Notebook"/></map><img border="0" src="architect.jpg" alt="Architect" title="Architect" usemap="#Architect"/></p></td> |
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| <a href="./../../openup_basic/workproducts/architecture_notebook-1.html" guid="_0XAf0MlgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw">Architecture Notebook</a> |
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| <a href="./../../openup_basic/workproducts/design-2.html" guid="_0WuL8slgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw">Design</a> |
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| <div class="sectionHeading">Main Description</div> |
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| This role leads or coordinates the technical design of the system and has overall responsibility for facilitating the |
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| major technical decisions expressed as software architecture. This typically includes identifying and documenting the |
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| architecturally significant aspects of the system as views that describe requirements, design, implementation, and |
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| deployment. |
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| This role is also responsible for providing the rationale for these decisions, balancing the concerns of the various |
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| stakeholders, reducing technical risks, and ensuring that decisions are effectively communicated, validated, and |
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| followed. |
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| This role is closely involved in organizing the team around the architecture by working closely with the <a class="elementLink" href="./../../openup_basic/roles/project_manager.html" guid="_0a0o0MlgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw">Project Manager</a> in staffing and planning the project. |
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| Architects must be well-rounded people with maturity, vision, and a depth of experience that allows for grasping issues |
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| quickly and making educated, critical judgments in the absence of complete information. Specifically, the person must |
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| possess this combination of qualifications: |
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| <b>Experience</b> <strong>in both problem and software engineering domains</strong>, with evidence of a thorough |
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| understanding of the requirements to solve the problem and active participation in software development. If there |
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| is a team, this experience can be represented by different team members, but at least one person must be able to |
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| provide the overall vision for the project. |
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| <b>Leadership ability</b> to motivate and maintain momentum for the technical effort across the various teams and |
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| to make critical decisions under pressure, plus make those decisions stick. To be effective, this role must have |
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| the authority to make technical decisions. |
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| <b>Excellent communication</b> <strong>skills</strong> to earn trust, persuade, motivate, and mentor. This role |
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| cannot lead by decree, but only by the consent of the rest of the project team. To be effective, this person |
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| must earn the respect of the team members, the <a class="elementLink" href="./../../openup_basic/roles/project_manager.html" guid="_0a0o0MlgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw">Project Manager</a>, the customer, and the user community, as well as the management |
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| team. |
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| <b>Goal-oriented and proactive</b> <strong>orientation</strong> with a relentless focus on results. This |
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| person is the technical driving force behind the project, not a visionary or dreamer. The career of a successful |
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| architect is a long series of sub-optimal decisions made in uncertainty and under pressure. Only those who can |
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| focus on doing what needs to be done will be successful. |
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| From an expertise standpoint, this role also needs to show both design and implementation abilities. However, from the |
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| design perspective, the effective architect typically exhibits these traits: |
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| Tends to be a generalist, rather than a specialist, who knows many technologies at a high level rather than a few |
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| Makes the broader technical decisions, thereby demonstrating broad knowledge and experience, as well as |
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| communication and leadership skills |
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| This person in this role should be engaged in the project from start to finish. |
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| For smaller projects, a single person may act as both Architect and <a class="elementLink" href="./../../openup_basic/roles/project_manager.html" guid="_0a0o0MlgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw">Project Manager</a>. However, it is better to have these roles performed by different people to ensure that the pressures one |
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| role doesn't cause neglect of the other role. The Architect and Project Manager must work together closely. |
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| <div class="sectionHeading">Key Considerations</div> |
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| <td class="sectionTableCell">This role places emphasis on the core principle <a class="elementLink" href="./../../openup_basic/guidances/concepts/core_principle_focus.html" guid="_9gocwMvoEdqukPpotm3DYg">Focus on the architecture early to minimize risks and organize development</a>.</td> |
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| <a href="./../../openup_basic/guidances/concepts/core_principle_focus.html" guid="_9gocwMvoEdqukPpotm3DYg">Focus on the architecture early to minimize risks and organize development</a> |
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| <a href="./../../openup_basic/guidances/concepts/software_architecture.html" guid="__O7tAMVvEduLYZUGfgZrkQ">Software Architecture</a> |
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