Questions tagged [architect]
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What defines a software architect?
At what point does a developer stop being simply a developer and turns into a software architect. Or in other words, what's the minimum job description of a software architect?
mumtaz
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What should you bring to the table as a Software Architect?
There have been many questions with good answers about the role of a Software Architect (SA) on StackOverflow and Programmers SE. I am trying to ask a slightly more focused question than those. The very definition of a SA is broad so for the sake of…
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How can architects work with self-organizing Scrum teams?
An organization with a number of agile Scrum teams also has a small group of people appointed as "enterprise architects". The EA group acts as control and gatekeeper for quality and adherence to decisions. This leads to overlaps between the team…
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What makes for a good architect/manager/lead developer?
I am the Lead Developer for a small software company. Over the past two years, my team has grown from one developer (me) to a group of about nine people. Most of us are very capable, senior engineers (20+ years of experience building software per…
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What's the worst technology decision you have ever seen?
This includes architecture decisions, platform choices or any situation where a such a bad choice led to negative consequences.
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What part of development should a software designer do?
My manager recently promoted me to "software designer". I am not aware that this title exists. As far as I know SAs creates high level code design and do diagrams.
I have a hard time understanding what high level code design I should do. According…
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Should a domain expert make class diagrams?
The domain expert in our team uses UML class diagrams to model the domain model.
As a result, the class diagrams are more of technical models rather than domain models (it serves of some sort of technical specifications for developpers because they…
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SaaS maturity level 2, how i can build configurable SaaS?(Technics and patterns)
According SaaS maturity model a SaaS is level 2 if is configurable, but how i can get started in this concept?how patterns and Technics, i can use to enable my SaaS?
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Credibility of Windows azure architect program from Sundblad & Sundblad
I am planning to attend the Windows Azure Architect Program from S&S.
http://www.windowsazurearchitect.com/
Although the website says it is a Microsoft Training Program, not sure how much credibility & recognition it has.
If someone attended the…
Sandeep
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What Is The Relationship Between Software Architect and Team Member
I work for a small company which has less than 100 persons. Several months ago, this company offered me position of SA and I accepted. There are three teams in this company, and I work for one of them. This is the first time I work as a SA.
During…
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How to Design a request distribution system (A bit sililar to Uber)
I am designing a delivery app where a Requester requests a thing from his mobile and the request is sent to multiple Agents on the field. When one Agent accepts the request, he will be assigned to the Requester and is expected to make his…
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How to tackle a software architect that feels he's above a standard programmer?
This post felt like it belonged somewhere in between SE Workplace and SE Programmers. However, since it's specifically targeting a programming issue, I decided to put it here.
What are the responsibilities of an architect? I'm asking because at…
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