A pragmatic view of the system architect

Authors:
John A. Mills
Affiliations:
Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1985

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Abstract

A whole-system designer, fire fighter, mediator, and jack-of-all-trades, the system architect brings unity and continuity to a development project—offsetting the inevitable compartmentalization of modern modular designs.