By mswatcher
via codebetter.com
Published: Sep 28 2007 / 12:44
This has been said over and over again, but as long as it keeps happening it just has to be said again.
A very common career path in IT "promotes" a coder over the years to a program manager with architect responsibilities. And being an architect they stop writing code themselves. The thing I see over and over again is that these people keep living in the programming environment in
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FlySwat replied ago:
An architect should manage, but delegate a large amount of the design to a development lead.
Chaucerian replied ago:
Totally agree, the architect should take on some of the coding tasks, and be involved in code reviews and direct the build process. How else can an architect know if the code reflects the architecture - or the best way to approach a change in direction.
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