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.‎