Present / Pitch InnerSource to Software Architects

[dellagustin]

Software Architects are often referred to as a group within companies. It is likely that there will be opportunities to present InnerSource to this audience.

One of the challenges here is that the role of Software Architect is very diverse and broad in scope. Some Architects work embedded in (often agile) teams, others work detached, others are senior/chief architects working at a higher level and leading other architects.

Architects working on different stacks (cloud, on premise, internal tools, embedded software...) will likely have different types of stakeholders and be differently affected by functional and non-functional requirements.

A few possible common denominators are:

• The need to have a deeper understanding of dependencies (components or services)
• The need to satisfy a diverse set of stakeholders
• The need to handover responsibility over the phases of a project (see Three Roles and Three Failure Patterns of Software Architects)
• They are busy catering for the requirements of stakeholders, it is difficult for them to invest in long term continuous improvement activities

Value proposition:

• (Need to work here)

Other references

• So what does a software architect do - .NET Oxford - December 2019 - < 10m, very good summary

Related patterns

• https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/2-structured/transparent-cross-team-decision-making-using-rfcs.md
• https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/modular-code.md
• https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/2-structured/extensions-for-sustainable-growth.md

[spier]

What is your sense, who is the intended audience in most of the material that the ISC has produced so far? My guess is IT leaders and also "developers" in the most general sense.

So if I understand you correctly, you want to create a pitch with the specific "Software Architect" persona in mind, right?

[dellagustin-sap]

What is your sense, who is the intended audience in most of the material that the ISC has produced so far? My guess is IT leaders and also "developers" in the most general sense.

I would agree with that, without thinking too much about it.

So if I understand you correctly, you want to create a pitch with the specific "Software Architect" persona in mind, right?

Exactly, I want to tailor the message for this persona.

[rrrutledge]

Thank you for logging this need! Is this work still happening?

[dellagustin-sap]

Hi @rrrutledge , sorry for the delay. I'm not working on this anymore. I did a presentation to an audience of architects, but the content there is not sufficient to produce something worth sharing, so I think we can close this.