Tips and tricks

“For the new architect, it is important to develop both technical and interpersonal skills. The technical skills are important, but you also need to listen, take inputs from a variety of sources (input from different people, different tools, and telemetry). The ability to understand, translate, and prioritize needs/wants between these stakeholders is important.”

– Dr. Char Sample, Chief Research Scientist – Cybercore Division at Idaho National Laboratory

The second thing that we’ll leave you with is a few things that have proven valuable to us in the course of our work. These are not the only things by any means that you can use to improve as an architect—in fact, because what is useful to each architect is subjective, there could be numerous techniques that we haven’t thought to include but that you would find valuable. Likewise, these are not a retread of what we’ve already discussed. We’ve tried...