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About Me
- Name: Nigel Fernandes
- Location: Panjim, Goa, India
Crazy, dancing, programming, Goan.. I'm a computer geek and proud to be one. I program in Java, Ruby and .Net, PHP, Javascript. A lot of my recent work has been about CSS and UI design practices for large scale websites and Agile teams. I still while away hours dreaming up a web startup.
Gandalf, the software architect.
Friday, September 4, 2009
My colleague Srushti had conversation with me about tech leads on projects being benevolent dictators. We moved from there on to the role of architects on agile projects. My thoughts on an architects role...Robert Paterson stated:
Critical for the success of the Mission in LOTR is that Gandalf make it clear to all the nature and extent of the threat and also what has to be done to "Win".
Most of the time Gandalf advises. Rarely - at crisis points - he acts. Above all he treats all as adults. You take his advice or you don't. He does not preach - he offers.
Replace mission in LOTR with software project and you have Gandalf the software architect. If he wrote code regularly he'd be an agile architect.
Labels: agile, projects, software architects, thoughts
