5.1. Leadership Is a Necessary, Learnable Skill
It is rare that a talented developer can immediately excel when first thrust into a leadership role. Furthermore, close examination of those who are successful typically reveals a history of informal leadership activity such as mentoring and assuming responsibility for tasks such as configuration management, which already affects a large number of fellow developers. Fortunately, leadership, while being a necessary part of an architect's skill set, is also a learnable skill.
Special characteristics of architectural leadership must be emphasized in order to maximize a software architect's chance for success. They are vision, integrity, and decisiveness. Vision provides a concrete goal for a development ...
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