Chapter III
Software architects
Search for architects who can defend a design in the room where the code will live.
An architect search fails when the requisition is a tool list. We write it around the system boundary, the constraints that are not optional, and the decision the architect is expected to make in the first quarter. Hands-on architects and governance-only architects are screened apart.
Seats
- Application architect
- Solution architect
- Integration architect
- Principal engineer acting as architect
A boundary and constraint note
Evidence from one system they shaped
A slate of three, with a reserve
Feedback after every round