The document discusses the role and importance of a solutions architect in software development, highlighting their responsibility to translate requirements into architectural designs and select appropriate technologies. It outlines the expectations, values, and skills required for solutions architects while emphasizing a pragmatic approach to design and implementation. The content also includes lessons learned and references for further information on solution architecture.

1. Solution Architecture,
touching base
Roman Shramkov, Kharkiv 2015

2. About Me
• Developer and Architect in enterprise Java
sector for many years
• Engineer and Practitioner by heart
• Solution Architect in EPAM’s Java
Competency Center
• Spare time Manager

3. Why Architecture is important?

4. An opinion
Software Architect is just a fancy title. In Agile there are no architects
and it rocks!

5. Chaotic Design

6. Disciplined Design

7. Is it easy? It is hard.
• Vision
• Will
• Leadership
• Competency
• Focus

8. Who is a Solution Architect?

9. Definition
The solutions architect is responsible for translating the requirements
created by functional analysts into the architecture for that solution and
describing it through the set of architecture and design artifacts.
Those artifacts are then used by the rest of the development team to
implement the solution.
The process of defining architecture by the solutions architect often involves
selection of the most appropriate technology for the problem being solved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutions_Architect

10. Product Delivery
Services
Conceptualization
Architecting
ConstructionDevelopment
Release

11. Solution Architect’s
place
Solution
Architect
Business
Architect
Software
Developer
Database
Developer
System
Administrator
Devops
Technology
Architect
Information
Architect
Enterprise Architect
Software Architect
QA
Implementation
Physical
Logical
Conceptual
Contextual
Business Application
Information/
Data
Technology
Business
Analyst

12. Solution Architect
Expectations
• Understand my business needs and propose solutions
• Know trends and fill my technology knowledge gap
• Know typical and proved solutions
• Propose different options, compare them and help me chose
• Help with actual implementation planning

13. Solution Architect
Values
• Clear, completed and confirmed requirements
• Low cost of solution selection through models and prototypes
• Wide vision and expertise for educated choices
• Shared final solution understanding
• Architecture governance

14. Solution Architect
Skills
• Clarification, analysis and documentation
• Communication, negotiation and facilitation
• Visualization and explanation
• Technical Leadership
• Des of technologies and solutions

15. Lessons learned

16. Change your mindset

19. Context Diagrams

20. Concept Diagrams

21. Blocks & Connectors
Logical Diagram

22. BE SIMPLE

23. Stay pragmatic

24. Be organized

25. Next steps

26. Grow as Generalist
Content UI/UX Java Web Cloud Integration
Cross-Discipline Competence
Deep-Discipline
Competence

29. Q n A

30. References
SA
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutions_Architect
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_architecture
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/mar06/eeles/index.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/524941/whats-the-difference-between-solutions-architect-and-applications-architect
PDS2.0
• https://dev.by/lenta/main/epam-bolshe-ne-epam
EDU
• http://www.sei.cmu.edu/
• https://www.opengroup.org/togaf/
• http://www.amazon.com/Software-Architecture-Practice-3rd-Engineering/dp/0321815734/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443684547&sr=1-
3&keywords=documenting+software+architectures
• http://www.amazon.com/Documenting-Software-Architectures-Views-Beyond/dp/0321552687/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443684547&sr=1-
1&keywords=documenting+software+architectures
• http://www.amazon.com/Evaluating-Software-Architectures-Methods-Studies/dp/020170482X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443684649&sr=8-
1&keywords=evaluating+software+architecture