Re:The Myth of Architect as Chess Master
by jungturk on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:50AM
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> if you're drawing diagrams of things you haven't personally made sure could work well together
If you're producing work products that don't accomplish their job, then you're probably just not good at your job, architect or no.
In this case, the diagrams are to guide development toward an acceptable conclusion, but if they instead impede or misdirect development then you failed.
Fortunately, there _are_ lots of ways to validate a technical design, among them toys & POCs, but also rtfm, reference works, etc...
The architect needn't rough things out in code all the time, though.
If you're producing work products that don't accomplish their job, then you're probably just not good at your job, architect or no.
In this case, the diagrams are to guide development toward an acceptable conclusion, but if they instead impede or misdirect development then you failed.
Fortunately, there _are_ lots of ways to validate a technical design, among them toys & POCs, but also rtfm, reference works, etc...
The architect needn't rough things out in code all the time, though.