Career Advice for Architects

Delivered at the Software Architecture Summit, Munich

1. Trisha Gee (@trisha_gee) Java Champion & Developer Advocate Career Advice for Architects
2. Define “Architect”
3. The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
4. Everyone is an architect these days (Sorry)
5. You
6. Required Skills
7. Asking Questions Listen to the answers!
8. “Good Communication Skills” Talking to computers is the easy bit
9. Adaptability And being open minded
10. Prioritisation And time management
11. Technology Skills I guess
12. Be aware If you perform non-technical activities too well, you may be moved into a non-technical role
13. Scaling
14. Pair Programming Mob Programming
15. Code Reviews Code walkthroughs
16. 20% Time But actually use it!
17. Community Support Give back to the community
18. Book Club With feedback sessions
19. Internal Learning Sessions Internal User Groups
20. Conferences User Groups
21. You don’t need to be In Charge to apply these Your responsibility as an architect is to share
22. Benefits of Sharing
23. Backup and Redundancy Specialisation and silos are a risk
24. Increase Team Productivity Teach 9 others your skills to be 10x more productive
25. Retention …and recruitment
26. It helps you to learn …and it makes you look great
27. In Summary
28. Your key skills are not technical
29. To scale your skills, share them
30. Sharing makes you Look Good
31. http://bit.ly/careerFP
32. http://bit.ly/careerFP @trisha_gee