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So why do I need a software architect?

I was asked the question above by a few of my customers.

Usually the question goes like this: "So why do I need a software architect? I have a .NET guru with quintillion years experience, who knows the internals of every class library you can imagine."

I won't lay the long answer here, but the short one is very simple:

".NET guru knows what can be done in .NET. Software architect knows what should be done in .NET".

What do you think of it?

Published Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:14 PM by MemiLavi

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BioSensorAB » So why do I need a software architect? said:

February 6, 2008 5:16 PM
 

El Bruno said:

You are right ... !!! I like the sentence a lot !!!

:D

February 7, 2008 9:37 AM
 

alikl said:

it is like asking - "why we need prescriptive guides, we have MSDN" or "why we need user's guide, we have user manual".

No contradiction - one thing is to know how it works, the other thing is to know who to use it best way

June 25, 2008 6:19 AM

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