http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspxBig 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 (TOGAFenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx#84548Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:54:28 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:84548MatthewI 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. <br> <br>For larger projects definetly yes. As our systems have grown over the years we suffer from a lack of good archtecture.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=84548" width="1" height="1">http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx#81850Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:18:34 GMTd67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:81850Some Things ArchitecturalIn my previous post, I was talking about who needs Architecture. Here is a fine article by Martin Fowler...<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=81850" width="1" height="1">