How Organizations Can Restructure Themselves to Churn Out Home Grown Architects at a Rapid Rate
1. The Generic Structure The most crucial element in a software organization is the quality of its software developers. The second most crucial element is how these developers are molded into having an architect's mindset for the future. In most organizations' structure the developers' core skills get lost amongst the various duties and responsibilities he must perform as he climbs up the professional ladder. This generic structure that consists of software developers, tech leads, business analysts, project leads etc. leads to the dilution of technical skills and the resource loses focus on areas that he expected to concentrate on. This leads to the creation of generalized resources rather than resources with specific skillsets. Even in organizations that focus on creating technical streams there is too much overemphasis on specific roles within each stream that actually dilutes the quality required of a good actual architect. Most seasoned enterprise architects will tell ...