Themselves to Churn Out Home Grown Boca Raton architects
Every software architect has played the role of a software developer, but very few software developers will get the opportunity to play the role of an Boca Raton architects in their future. Evolving into an architect or at least a good one takes years of dedication to technology, its concepts and emerging trends as well as best practices. There are too few decent architects out there and at times the scarcity of architects is quite alarming. Alarming as it may be it is still not too surprising though since we all know the abilities and skills expected of an architect are quite demanding these days and are very rare to possess.
It’s quite a stressful, responsible and critical role in an organization that is required to steer projects towards success. Even though there is a huge demand for quality architects in the market they still remain a scarce breed and they come at an ever increasing high cost. This article talks about how an organization can rethink its structure to address the underlying issue for scarcity of top architects and focus on developing home grown architects rather than depending on high cost lateral architects.
1. The Generic Structure
The most crucial element in a software organization is the quality of its software developers. The second most crucial element is how these developers are molded into having an architect’s mindset for the future. In most organizations’ structure the developers’ core skills get lost amongst the various duties and responsibilities he must perform as he climbs up the professional ladder. This generic structure that consists of software developers, tech leads, business analysts, project leads etc. leads to the dilution of technical skills and the resource loses focus on areas that he expected to concentrate on.
This leads to the creation of generalized resources rather than resources with specific skillsets. Even in organizations that focus on creating technical streams there is too much overemphasis on specific roles within each stream that actually dilutes the quality required of a good actual architect. Most seasoned enterprise architects will tell you that there are only two kinds of technical resources i.e. 1) Developer 2) Architect, everything else in between is a pure overhead and results in dilution of the qualities required by a good technical resource.