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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.

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Subscription based architecture groups

Are they value for money?

Don't worry, this isn't an announcement that we're going to start charging for access to the site! Over the years, I've joined a couple of subscription based software architecture groups such as the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects (WWISA) and the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). Generally, you pay a one-off fee and then you can login to the members area where you have access to articles, documents, discussions, etc.

From a personal perspective, I've been disappointed by the quantity and quality of material available on such sites so I've never really got much out of them (and hence have never renewed). So I'm curious ... what are your experiences with subscription based architecture/software development groups and are there any that you'd recommend to others?

Responses[2]

Posted by Simon Brown on 11 February 2009 19:04:00 GMT #

Re: Subscription based architecture groups

Comment from Alex Forbes on 12 February 2009 16:19:30 GMT #

Hi Simon, As a communications professional for a software company who has interviewed quite a few software architects for success stories or news releases, I have to say I've never run across any useful subscription based groups myself. Many offshoots are found on Linkedin as well. I will however mention this site to those architects I communicate with in the months ahead. I've never met an architect that didn't have great things to say about the agile software change and configuration managment tool the company I work for provides. Perhaps pointing them to this site will offer some payback for their helping me so often. Thank you.

Re: Subscription based architecture groups

Comment from Paul Houle on 17 February 2009 17:32:57 GMT #

I don't know if they're in the same category for you, but personally I'm a member of the ACM (Association For Computing Machinery) and the PMI (Project Management Institute.)

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