ROLE OF ARCHITECT IN SOCIETY

• HETVI SORATHIA
• PARITA PATEL
• SHUBHAM JANGID
• RONAK SONPAL
• SOHAM GHANTIWALA
• DARSH MAIWALA
• TIRTH GADHIYA
• BHARG PATEL
• SMIT LATHIDADIYA

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• A simplistic view of the role is that architects create architectures,
and their responsibilities encompass all that is involved in doing so.
This would include:

• Articulating the architectural vision conceptualizing and

experimenting with alternative architectural approaches.
• Creating models and component and interface specification
document and validating the architecture against requirements and
assumptions.

• What is the need of an architect?

• What actually an architect can do? and
• For what purposes we precisely need an architect?

• These are the various questions which generally strikes our head
when we need any supervisor to make our dreams realistic.

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 Architecture is actually an art of designing spaces which suits the
user, goes with the atmosphere, is user friendly and gives positive
psycho-physical response. An architect is multi-tasking person.

 Ancient, traditional cultures and languages used the same word for
both builder
 and architect. Construction was an integrated craft.

 With the industrial revolution came new materials, machines,

techniques, regulations, etc. And along with all this came a
proliferation of highly specialized subcontractors, who handled each
specialized problem.

 The specialized details of construction became matters for experts

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providing overall conception of structures, and managing the
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 TECHNOLOGY
As an architect, you need a thorough knowledge of your
organization’s products,
relevant technologies and
development processes.

But the architect does not have to write just any code to show that
he or she is still getting exposure to the technology and staying
current with the moving frontier of "hard problems" that must be
solved to make this system fly. Either the architect has to have very
good relationships with designer/developers who do work on this
frontier relationships that translate through active discussions and
open sharing into real insight or the architect has to work there
herself.

Ideally, the architect is seen as useful by developers, not just as a

political shield, but as a technical problem solver.
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 The architect role is working well when developers call upon
the architect to enter into problem solving with them. The architect
is also the person (or team) with the whole-system purview, so we
emphasize the ARCH in the word architect, not just the TEC.

The architect deals with over-arching concerns.

What are the really big things we have to get right, or we
fail?
What are the concerns that cut across the pieces of the
system?

If we want the system to have particular properties, we need

to intentionally design the architectural elements and their
collaborations to achieve these properties. If we do not, the
properties are emergent so that system acceptance is a matter of
some combination of luck, developer heroics, and user compromise.

The personal characteristics really essential to success in

this
ROLEdomain are
OF ARCHITECT a high tolerance for ambiguity
IN SOCIETY because the problems
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are less well-defined, often with unclear or conflicting objectives, and

 What you What you DO What you ARE
KNOW
In-depth Identify and address Creative
understanding of architectural challenges
Investigative
the domain and
pertinent
Create models and assess Practical/pragmatic
technologies
alternative approaches
Understand what
Insightful
technical issues are Prototype/experiment/simul
ate
key to success
Tolerant of
Prepare architectural ambiguity, willing to
Development
documents and backtrack, seek
methods and
presentations multiple solutions
modeling
techniques
Good at working at
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 Business Strategy
To succeed in this aspect of the architect role…

You need a solid understanding of your organization’s business

strategy and the rationale behind it, as well as your company or
division’s business practices, planning cycles, and decision making
processes.

You have a good understanding of the business context of your

organization. You understand your competitors, their products,
strategies and product generation processes.

You are familiar with the key factors in the business environment
that affect your organization’s success, and you are able to distill all
these business factors into architectural requirements and
architectural choices.

But the overriding characteristic that fuels your PRACTICE

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domain is that of an entrepreneurial visionary who can translate well
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 What you KNOW What you DO What you ARE
Your organization’s Influence business strategy Visionary
business strategy
and rationale
Translate business strategy
Entrepreneurial
Your into technical vision and
competition(products strategy
, strategies and
process) Understand customer and
market trends

Capture customer,
Your company’s
organizational and business
business practices
requirements on the
architecture
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 Organizational
Our view of organizational politics, just like the politics of
Politics
nations and states, is too often sullied by manipulative, power-
grubbing behavior of a few individuals. The best of politics is,
however, about working to achieve consensus, to effectively align
people through integration of interests, and persuasion and influence
rather than authority or dominance.

For the architect, this often means defending the technical

integrity of a system, while acknowledging the organizational factors
that have a necessary bearing on the nature of the solution.
Architectures have many and diverse stakeholders.

You really need to understand both the business and personal

objectives of key players, and get them personally committed to the
success of the architecture. This means listening, networking,
articulating and selling a vision, and doing all this continuously over
the life of the project.

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 Leadership
The domain of competency which organizes all the others and
gives them dynamic force, is leadership. An architecture team without
leadership goes nowhere. It thrashes and diverges. A leader is required
to infuse the team with a common vision, and to motivate the core
team and associated teams to do their best work.
This requires dedication and passion, and a strong belief that
you can lead the effort. You must see yourself, and others must see
you, as a credible leader.

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 What you KNOW What you DO What you ARE
Yourself Set team context(vision) You and others see
you as a leader
Charismatic and
Make decision(stick) credible
You believe it can
and should be done,
Build teams Motivate and that you can
lead the effort
You are committed,
dedicated,
passionate
You see the entire
effort in a broader
ROLE OF ARCHITECT IN SOCIETY business and
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 Conclusion
As we have seen, the architect role is very challenging. A
lot of what this role is about is not technical, so if this is what you
enjoy doing— great! If not, you may not want the role of senior
architect.

Before choosing the role, you should also be aware that

there are other risks that you should consider. You will have more
responsibility without corresponding authority and control; you
will encounter a lot of resistance and disappointments—
However, if the challenges inherent in architecting are
the kind that appeals to you, then the role has great rewards...

Success in the architect role depends on skills and

characteristics not typically emphasized in university curricula or
the on-the-job training.
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