Who needs Architecture?

Big companies? Medium companies? Small companies?

Large corporations usually deal with huge enterprise solutions and will engage their architects to take care of the new project with their architectural skills and all the possible Architectures (TOGAF, DoDAF, etc) that could apply on this mammoth of a project.

But what about SMEs? Do small and medium sized projects need architecture?

The project which is in mid-development stage, doesn't have an architectural plan or design. Yes you don't need to employ TOGAF or DoDAF but how about a proper design explaining the architecture?

Yes, a company just want the project to be completed and get revenue out of it. So who is to care about the architecture? Who is to care about the design?

Do non-enterprise scale projects need architecture? Is Architecture today something that a company bothers about? Do Architects belong solely belong in MNCs?

Published Thu, Jan 26 2006 2:40 by Rohan Thomas

Comments

# Who needs an Architect?

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:18 PM by Some Things Architectural
In my previous post, I was talking about who needs Architecture. Here is a fine article by Martin Fowler...

# re: Who needs Architecture?

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:54 PM by Matthew
I would say no for small applications. We have many successful small applications that serve their purpose very well and guy who wrote them (myself) did not know there was any such thing as a software architect at the time.

For larger projects definetly yes. As our systems have grown over the years we suffer from a lack of good archtecture.

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