IASA

Earlier this week I had a meeting with few architects from Israel and we had a conference call (well, sort of, there were a lot of technical problems) with Paul Preiss, president of International Association of Software Architects (IASA). The purpose of the meeting was to discuss forming an IASA chapter in Israel.

The reason I am telling you this is that IASA was formed to deal with issues that matters to architects: (quoted from www.iasahome.org)

1. Experience isn't portable: every employer defines and uses architecture differently, sometimes making our experience almost useless when changing companies.
2. Resources are scarce: architects have very few resources (content and education) to work with. It is often very difficult to find the materials we need to do our jobs.
3. Difficult to judge quality: very few people agree on the fundamental components of architecture or what it takes to become a qualified architect. Without a dependable internal forum we cannot hope to achieve quality architectures.
4. Lack of community: there is no way to quickly find peers of our own caliber to discuss the issues which drive us.

Membership is free and considering the other software architects organization (WWISA) has been brain dead for quite some time now, I think it is important for software architects that care about their profession to join in and help make a difference.

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz at 05:44 AM  Permalink