Schlagwort: Professionalism

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

In this truly unique technical book, today’s leading software architects present valuable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. More than four dozen architects — including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de h ra — offer advice for communicating with stakeholders, eliminating complexity, empowering developers, and many more practical lessons they’ve learned from years of experience. Among the 97 principles in this book, you’ll find useful advice such as:

  • Don’t Put Your Resume Ahead of the Requirements (Nitin Borwankar)
  • Chances Are, Your Biggest Problem Isn’t Technical (Mark Ramm)
  • Communication Is King; Clarity and Leadership, Its Humble Servants (Mark Richards)
  • Simplicity Before Generality, Use Before Reuse (Kevlin Henney)
  • For the End User, the Interface Is the System (Vinayak Hegde)
  • It’s Never Too Early to Think About Performance (Rebecca Parsons)

To be successful as a software architect, you need to master both business and technology. This book tells you what top software architects think is important and how they approach a project.

You can find the 97 things for free here.

Links for Software Architects

Over the time, I have collected some links to websites and articles with topics interesting for Software Architects. Since they might be of interest for others, too, I am providing them here for you. If you also have some links which you think are interesting for other Software Architects, please let me know.

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Professional Software Development

What defines a professional developer? The initiative „Clean Code Developer“ (german only, english version using Google Translate) tries to facilitate a common understanding of this question. It has started to collect principles, rules and best practices for better software.

They see as basic principle for becoming a professional developer to be self-conscious about your work and always try to improve yourself as well as to adhere to some common best practices and working principles. Trying to lead developers to more professionalism, they have also collected a lot of concrete recommendations for the day to day work. To make it easier to follow these practices and rules, all recommendations are grouped by a so-called grade system. So you can start with the easy ones and get to the maybe not so easy to follow rules later.

Even if you don’t agree to all suggested practices and principles, the side is definitely worth a read since you will find a lot of good practices concentrated on one location. Additionally, they also maintain a link list for useful tools and frameworks.

You can find the Clean Code Developer initiative here.