Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

What are the duties, skills, knowledge,
and organziational relationships of a chief architect?

The SEI has been gathering comments from the software engineering community on the duties of a chief software architect. Specifically, we are asking your opinions about the

  • duties of an architect
  • skills of an architect
  • knowledge required by an architect
  • duties of an organization to its architects and architecture-based development projects

Please use the form below to add your duties to our database. The SEI will post your response with the new and previously submitted duties of a chief software architect. Remember to include any appropriate citations.

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