Jiri’s Notepad

Sam Lowe:

It is not knowledge of the technologies or standards that is lacking, and it’s not knowledge of the architectural frameworks or methods that is lacking. It is a lack of knowledge of what it takes for an architecture or strategy to be perceived as being successful by all the people whose work is affected by it, or who are interested in it.

I’m one on this with Sam. What is scary is that there are way too many people out there who do their work by what they see as the correct way of doing things rather. Even though it is not always good to follow ‘customer is always right’ approach, the opposite is as dangerous. What you do needs to be right according to the standards but the most important thing is that it needs to add some real value to your customers. I used to think the maverick thinking is the domain of security folks, but my experience now is that it applies to architects camp as much. That’s definitely a behaviour trait to look out for (in order to avoid) when hiring new staff.