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Architects Role and Shadowing

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I had an interesting request from an architect today which was in the area of skills and competencies. He asked:

“Is there internal information regarding job descriptions, goals, objectives, key competencies etc that Microsoft have for the role of a technical or enterprise focussed architect that could be shared?”

Clearly (as he pointed out) they will depend on the organisation etc but there are some general competencies and skills that could be defined. Anyway we do have some of this information for architectural roles in Microsoft so I was thinking about pulling that together for this architect. The question I have is would this information be of interest to other architects? if so I could put it up on an external web site.

The other thing he asked was if we had an architect shadowing / mentoring program (which I guess would be a sort of hands on blog!). This was an interesting idea but most of our architectural work is done for customers so is confidential or for Microsoft and so is done in our ITG group in the US. Anyway I guess a blog is a sort of on line asynchronous mentoring program, in fact I wonder if there is anything substantive that a mentoring gives over and above a well written blog.

Yet again I am reminded of how much we need training and educational architectural material. I will send off another batch of emails trying to make this happen.

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  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2004
    True :)
  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2004
    Lol, this information would be really handy as I am attempting to compile sponsorship for having a formal architectural team/person added to the development staff at my current place of employment.

    We just hired our network engineer last year because we finally realized we had lost control. I am hoping that this doesn't happen to development and that they will see the need before the time comes to cry UNCLE!
  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2004
    I think it would be very valuable to have that information available in one place. Some large companies try to define that role and aren't quite sure where to start.
  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2004
    I second that. It'd be incredibly useful to have.
  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2004
    I know people who do job modeling, which provides a job description based on job inputs, job outputs, information required to do the job, feedback required to perform to standards, and conditions required to perform. They will be in London June 11 for a few days. Would you be interested in an informal meeting with them?

    They have done job modeling and job descriptions for ITG and another organization at MS.
    debbi
  • Anonymous
    June 08, 2004
    Love to meet anyone doing job modelling, please send them my email address or send contact details to me at mikepl@microsoft.com