Becoming a Better Software Architect

For more than two decades, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has been instrumental in the creation and development of the field of software architecture. In our past webcasts, What Makes a Good Software Architect? ( • What Makes a Good Soft... ) and What Makes a Good Software Architect (2019 Edition)? ( • What Makes a Good Soft... ), we have discussed what makes a good software architect. The range of knowledge and skills involved can be daunting, particularly given the pace of change in technologies and practices. In this session, a panel of architects will discuss their personal paths to becoming software architects and how they have helped others on that journey.
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[@quranthecompanion4528]

Awesome. Thank you CMU. Loved every single second of it. This webinar gave me a sense of validation regards to what I do. I will be joining your Architecture certificate program soon.

[@andersmagnusson9023]

Thank you for sharing this video as well as the two previous ones in these COVID 19 lay off times. It gave me a good reminder and some good perspectives on acting as an architect, not just software, if I reflect upon the discussion a bit.
As software itself lives in the technology domain, although much closer to the final application domain than many other technologies, it should be good to hear about becoming a better "software architect" in the context of where one have mechanics, hydraulics, electronics etc. and of course software that play together such as in in commercial vehicles, trains, cars, telecom base stations, EKG measurement machines, .... Perhaps a topic for future panel discussion to extend the thinking of "software architect" to "technology Y architect".

[@SaurabhOKumar]

What is the ultimate purpose of any finalized architecture? In what way a software architect study about other streams that affect the actual design of architecture leaving the technicalities of actual software design and development like business, stakeholders, market space, sense of the crux of the end product, overall user experience for the end user, prospect of reality of growth of such framework structures for the future of industry establishment in terms of top-down work mechanics and it's management with variant changes to bring faster overall efficiency to it's actual effective more finer/refined and faster achievements?

[@robertsnyder8196]

Very helpfu. Thank you.

[@SaurabhOKumar]

How do you define the pathway to a budding architect that has linear foundation to it in a sequence or flow in current situation leading to next 3-5 years?

[@cookiemonster3699]

"... that's the beauty of engineers and architects
, when you work with them you buy them a pizza and a few sodas they'll come to your room and give you an hour of their time and they will help you find the risks and problems with what you're doing..."
absolutely hilarious!