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0 pointscloseparen3y ago0 comments

We schedule follow up meetings with smaller groups of interested parties about the areas of controversy or deficiency.

>An architect team should be highly integrated, participate in the coding aspect and only once something is shipped, moves on.

At that point, why are they a separate role or team? That sounds pretty close to architecture being one of the responsibilities of the main development team.

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Fire-Dragon-DoL3y ago· 2 in thread

Because they have the experience on theirs.

Having an integrated architecture team serves for training purposes and for overlooking the mistakes.

At the same time, it helps keeping the architecture team up to date with the codebase.

Why wouldn't you do that, if it's highly beneficial in both directions?

The fact that a separate team does design work has been proven to be wrong, of course we shouldn't do that again

closeparenOP3y ago

Someone who is functionally part of the development team but has more experience than others and some kind of supervisory capacity over technical direction is, in my world, a senior or staff engineer. Do you also have those? How are they different from architects?

Fire-Dragon-DoL3y ago

As simple as some engineers is specialized in React, some in Rails, some in Postgres, some in system design.

Yes I'd agree it's a similar role, I'm just making a point of recognizing the specialization.

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