Design It!

Facilitate Decision Making and Foster Skills Growth

For the team to truly own the architecture, the software architect must support them fully. Instead of acting as the sole design authority, we’ll infuse our teams with the knowledge and skills they need to make design decisions for themselves. When things are going well, architects look more like coaches or mentors than authoritative leaders who make all the design decisions. Above all else, when possible, we let the team design the architecture instead of making the decisions ourselves.

Here are some examples of how architects can make this happen:

OK Software Architects	Great Software Architects
Select patterns and technology without input	Collaboratively select patterns and technologies with ...