Master The Crucial Technical Skills Every Software Architect Needs‎!‎ To succeed as a software architect‎,‎ you must master both technical skills and soft skills‎.‎ Dave Hendricksen illuminated the soft skills in his highly‎-regarded 12 Essential Skills for Software Architects‎.‎ Now‎,‎ in 12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects he turns to the technical side‎.‎ Drawing on his decades of experience‎,‎ Hendricksen organizes technical skills into three areas‎.‎ PROJECT SKILLS‎:‎ driving projects from ideation through delivery TECHNOLOGY SKILLS‎:‎ building‎,‎ buying‎,‎ and/or leveraging the right technologies VISIONARY SKILLS‎:‎ realizing an architectural vision that improves long‎-term competitiveness He helps you develop and sharpen these key technical skills‎:‎ from conceptualizing solutions to developing platforms and governance‎,‎ and from selecting technology innovations to infusing architectures with an entrepreneurial spirit‎.‎ This guide reveals the technical skills you need and provides a coherent framework and practical methodology for mastering them‎.‎ Taken together‎,‎ Hendricksen‎'‎s two books offer the most complete‎,‎ practical pathway to excellence in software architecture‎.‎ They‎'‎ll guide you through every step of your architecture career‎-from getting the right position to thriving once you have it‎.‎ Essential Architect Skills Visionary Skills Entrepreneurial Execution Technology Innovation Strategic Roadmapping Technology Skills Governance Platform Development Know‎-how Architectural Perspective Project Skills Estimation Partnership Discovery Management Conceptualization Dave Hendricksen is a big data architect for Thomson Reuters‎,‎ where he works closely with the firm‎'‎s new product development teams to create innovative legal products for large‎-scale online platforms such as Westlaw‎.‎com‎.‎ Hendricksen presented ‎"‎Designing and Building Large‎-Scale Systems in an Agile World‎"‎ at Carnegie Mellon University‎'‎s influential Software Engineering Institute‎.‎