I genuinely hate the software architect title.
It's like when we were in school and the teacher told us to write an outline before writing. No problem ! the majority wrote the text first and then the outline.
That's because people in general write to think.* The level of deep thought achieved through writing is harder to achieve beforehand.
In the same sense, the level of deep thought achieved through writing code, is hard to achieve beforehand. It's actually worse because your engineers, dangled in this web of classes, won't be able to think about the big picture for themselves.
An Architect thinks in terms of what sounds good, what is beautiful in OOP-land not in terms of what is easy to write, and what's performant to implement.
One poignant example is the interviewer who wants you to implement chess pieces as classes. which sounds good in the architects' world but is blatantly insane if you think about the actual code and the actual challenges you're facing.
* writing to think and writing to be read are conflicting goals that why editors exist.
That's because people in general write to think.* The level of deep thought achieved through writing is harder to achieve beforehand.
In the same sense, the level of deep thought achieved through writing code, is hard to achieve beforehand. It's actually worse because your engineers, dangled in this web of classes, won't be able to think about the big picture for themselves.
An Architect thinks in terms of what sounds good, what is beautiful in OOP-land not in terms of what is easy to write, and what's performant to implement.
One poignant example is the interviewer who wants you to implement chess pieces as classes. which sounds good in the architects' world but is blatantly insane if you think about the actual code and the actual challenges you're facing.
* writing to think and writing to be read are conflicting goals that why editors exist.