Leveraging Soft Skills
Since I first joined the technical world as an developer and learned the inner workings of its teams, the role of an architect was always presented as someone that had little to no interaction with the development team, someone whose decisions couldn’t be challenged, and someone who carried out the essential tasks for the product.
As a junior and in my first project ever, I didn’t even get the honor of meeting the architect. I worked on the project for over a year. So, yeah, you can imagine that when I later switched teams, and the architect had the desk closer to mine, I understood the difference between a title and a role.
The role of an architect is to be a leader most of the time and therefore, they have to work on having the best communication skills. They have to know how to shape their speech to be understood by both the technical team and the businesspeople.
In this chapter, we will discuss some of the main areas in which depending...
