What I learned from … (other professions)

I’ve always been fascinated and reflecting about the peacefulness and the respect that emerges when watching some masters doing their professions.
So, I spent lately some years time observing and trying to see the world through their lenses and may be, and if I’m good enough, adopt their skills and get inspired to improve myself personally and professionally.

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lessons learned as/to be a software architect

lessons learned as/to be a software architect
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The role of the software architect is yet a subject of various debate: it’s vaguely determined, hard to define and sometime misleads to nonsense responsibilities in some job descriptions.

I won’t discuss here about what is the precise day-to-day job of an architect inside a team or a company, but I will try, through my experience, to describe some of the aspects and the qualities that any architect should have.

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