Six months ago I was invited to attend a panel interview about the role of the architect. It was an interesting discussion with a lot of viewpoints around what the architect does? Why is he needed? Where is he in the organization etc.? The problem was that I never saw the panel published, but then last week I met the editor who told me that he published it in December :-)
For those of you that don't know Hebrew, I'll summarize the key points I contributed to the discussion:
- The architect is the one who connects the Business and the IT.
- The architect is the one who looks from above and builds the puzzle that includes the components, systems and the connections between them.
- The architect thinks always about how what we do today can be reused in future projects.
- The role is gaining traction abroad and in veteran companies in Israel.
Here is the scanned interview:
