Blog Activity: Who Needs an Architect?

Normally, when we hear the word Architect, for a non-IT career related we remember those persons that creates the main structure of a building or a construction. The one's that creates a model from a house, etc.

For us, programmers or in other words for IT related, the term architect and architecture gets a different meaning, especially on the part that one person who has experience is considered an architect (also, for me the term of architect is a person who has already more than 5 - 10 years on his work area, considering it for a job vacancy) and a person who can get the right authority for the development of a project.

The architect in other words is considered a very important person so a project or software could have a great amount of success. Now, this term is for the people who manage the project to have the same channel and knowledge from all the employees involved on the work, but remember that is only for the development part, because there is a person who get all the project control and that one is the project manager.

What I’m trying to say is that there are too many people who works on the development of a software, Q/A, developers, testers and other areas that conform a team. The architect is considered an important, a very important person for the project, not only for being the one with more knowledge from the other, but also to analyze the best options the team has for development, he already saw further than the team and knows where to lead the group. 

I'm still looking for options for a specific role on my career, the ones that I look interesting is network architect or even software architect, this does not mean that I won't pass the first stages from my career to become an architect, a person with experience but is a good objective to set in mind to success.

Now, according to the reading this could answer one of the most important questions, is it necessary an architect? My answer and opinion is yes, experience and knowledge are 2 important tools to have that sightseeing that some expert needs, not only to have a good development but also to consider a person with more experience inside the project, could help to get the required success for the team and the process.