What is the role of a software architect?

How do you define software architecture?

How do you deliver software architecture?

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Speaking

Simon Brown presented a free talk about where to start with software architecture at Skills Matter in London on the 17th of May. You can view the slides or watch the video.

Simon is presenting a session called Where do you start? at the Norwegian .NET User Group (NNUG) on the 24th of August in Oslo.

About the author

Depending on your viewpoint, Simon is either a software architect who codes or a software developer who understands architecture. When he's not developing software with .NET or Java, Simon can usually be found consulting, coaching or training. Simon has also written books about Java, presented at industry events and has put together a training course called Software architecture for developers, which is based upon his software architecture writing at Coding the Architecture.

Twitter: @simonbrown
E-mail: simon.brown at codingthearchitecture.com

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Quick links

Read Simon's InfoQ article called Are you a software architect?
Download our presentations.
Read our software architecture document guidelines.

What is architecture?

Towards a definition of architecture

Architecture is a widely-used term within software development yet is very hard to define rigorously. Indeed, it changes meaning from domain to domain, company to company, project to project and even from employee to employee.

Read the full essay in our book.

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Posted by Simon Brown on 02 May 2008 11:53:54 BST #

Re: What is architecture?

Comment from Simon Brown on 04 May 2008 22:58:34 BST #

For those interested, Alfredo Juarez has posted a Spanish translation.

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