Software Architect's Handbook

What is the software architect role?

Now that we know what software architecture is, the importance and benefits of it, and have an understanding that there are a variety of stakeholders who are affected by it, let's examine the software architect role. What makes someone a software architect? What does it mean to be a software architect?

Certainly, software systems can be developed without a software architect. You may have worked on a project in which no one was playing the software architect role. In some of those cases, the project may have succeeded despite that, or it may have failed because of it.

When no one is specifically given the software architect title, someone on the team may end up making architectural decisions. Such an individual ...