The Architect's Role in Practice: From Decision Maker to Knowledge Manager?

Rainer Weinreich; Iris Groher

doi:10.1109/MS.2016.143

The Architect's Role in Practice: From Decision Maker to Knowledge Manager?

Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering

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Abstract

Interviews with software architects from Europe and the United States show a diverse picture of software architecting in practice but also a common theme: the transformation of the role of the software architect from the primary decision-maker to coordinator, advisor and knowledge manager.

Original language	English
Article number	7725227
Pages (from-to)	63-69
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	33
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2016.143
Publication status	Published - 2016

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102022 Software development
502050 Business informatics

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
Management and Innovation

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10.1109/MS.2016.143

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journal = "IEEE Software",

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