IASA Architect Skills Project

In partnership with Microsoft, IASA, the International Association of Software Architects, has initiated an interesting project. Based on the work of the taxonomy (of the software architecture) workgroup, IASA assembled 119 skills that are beneficial to architects (soft and hard). The project is to write a short paper that describes each of these skills.

Here is an excerpt from the original announcement by IASA:

This fall, the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) is developing a full skills package for the IT architect. The project fulfills a primary component of the IASA mission which is to allow the open architect community to guide the overall direction of the profession. The goal of the project is to deliver a series of 3-5 page white papers on the skills necessary to function as an IT architect. This material will be freely available to the community and will provide a solid foundation for an aspiring architect to understand the capabilities of a senior IT architect regardless of specialization.

Purpose
To create an overview of the state of the art of IT architecture, compiled from responses to targeted questions and discussion with, the world's dominant professionals and thought leaders on a series of particular, focused topics. The outcome of the overview will be a series of white papers targeted to the senior developer and aspiring IT architect

I will contribute one paper to this endeavor (as I hard have any free time left between my blogs and my book) but many other (probably more capable) senior architects will be delivering these papers. The project is due for January 2007, and I can hardly wait to see how it turns out. This is a good news for the architect profession in general, and for aspiring architects in particular.

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