Trends Report

A Guide To More Effective Developer-Architect Relations

Survey: Developers Say Some Architects Are Extremely Effective

December 31st, 2014
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Randy Heffner
With contributors:
Diego Lo Giudice , Christopher Mines , Kurt Bittner , Pamela Heiligenthal , Gene Leganza , Eric Wheeler

Summary

Developers and architects don't always get along . . . and that's a bad thing. Organizations need both the short-term agility of fast delivery cycles and the longer-term sustainable agility and cost reduction of well-managed, coherent business-technology architecture. Swinging too far to the developer side leads to siloed solutions with independent architectures and increasing costs of operation and integration. Swinging too far to the architect side leads to slow business responsiveness and competitive disadvantage. In our surveys of developers, Forrester asks what they think about architecture effectiveness and about the kinds of architecture governance they are subject to. This report analyzes this data to identify key themes to guide effective working relationships between developers and architects. Developers should use the data to help create more effective relationships with architects, helping both communities achieve their goals.

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