From the course: Software Architecture Foundations
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What's the job? Traditional architects
From the course: Software Architecture Foundations
What's the job? Traditional architects
- Have you ever wondered what exactly an architect does? It turns out that there's a huge difference between a traditional architect in a waterfall organization and a modern Agile architect, so let's look at both, starting with the traditional version. A traditional software architect is what Uncle Bob Martin, one of the signers of the Agile Manifesto, dubbed Architectus Matrixis, the guy in the white suit in the second Matrix movie working in pristine isolation and speaking a language that sounded like English but nobody could make any sense of. He conceived a perfect design, or at least he couldn't imagine that it wasn't perfect. He sees himself as the most brilliant person in the room. The dirty work of implementation is beneath him, performed by the lesser minions. The architect does all the thinking. Everybody else just does what they're told. I know people like this. They treat the programmers as if they were incompetent idiots, calling them code monkeys or some other term of…
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