Follwoing several months of hard work, IASA - The International Association of Software Architect, has finally published on-line the Architect Skill set library. What is the skill set library you ask ? Well, it is what you get when a few dozens of architects (your humble servant included) author papers relating their experience on the different aspects of the architect’s role- everything from design, infrastructure, quality attributes to human dynamics (soft skills)

I should probably mention mention both Nicole Tedesco and Dana Gerow who orchestrated all this effort, and whiteout whom, I personally doubt if the project was now online

By the way, what is even more interesting is that IASA is organizing training material based on this body of collective knowledge - and if this works well we’ll finally have a comprehensive course to train new architects. Meanwhile, you can find the all the PDFs online at http://www.iasahome.org/web/home/skillset

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As I mentioned earlier I also wrote a paper for this project – on Views and Viewpoints which you can download directly from here