The road to the architect 26th Day. On the writing skills of architecture and design documents

Objective:

This is a piece of paper, not too much code and logic, is a "soft" technique, but it's important for how you can be a structured design person.

To be clear here, architects themselves are also "programmers," not just lip------and if you're not a program, you can't be an architect at all.

So what else does the architect have that they don't have as a programmer?

One of the competencies is called "Document writing".

First, Soft Skill and Hard Skill

As an architect, in addition to being a senior programmer, it must also have a corresponding soft Skill, one of which is called documentation Skill.

1. First, hard Skill.

Code and framework and flexible use of products as well as in the corresponding domain (such as insurance, banking, CRM, DW ...) We call it hard Skill, without which you can't be a qualified programmer.

There is a difference between programmers and it, and programmers are the main force in the IT industry, but if you're on a Web site or a software division that needs analysis, even a secretary, you're an IT person, right? So these things are a "hard" condition to be a architect.

2. What is soft Skill

Soft Skill refers to documentation Skill, presentation skill,communication Skill, corresponding language Skill (excluding the Japanese language), Management Skill, Leader ship, these.

Of course, there are more, more ...

2.1 Documentation Skill and Presentation Skill

Today, the main story is documentation Skill and presentation Skill.

Do not underestimate these two points, some people say his own programming well, someone said his algorithm wrote how profound, then ... In the present, the team is the first and in the current world economic environment to the customer first in the context of what you know can not express to others, who will understand your ideas, who will accept your ideas, who will choose your company's products?

Give two examples:

Prof. Su Buchin, he is a big mathematician, right, perhaps many people do not know Prof. Su Buchin in the literary attainments is also very deep.

Prof. Su Buchin once said: Why I like Chinese, language, because my thesis, my textbooks need to express the language, if not the language, Chinese learning I can not more accurate to express my algorithm more clearly.

Tan Hoqiang, author of the famous computer scholar C language course, once said: It is the best paper to express complex problems with simple and straightforward language and block diagrams.

As a practical example, you are in a bidding competition, your design may be very good, but how to enable customers to understand and accept your company's design plan?

Then you need to be conscious to improve at ordinary times or we say that practicing your documentation skill,documentation skill is associated with presentation skill.

2.2 To be good at understanding the "packaging"

Presentation skill is "propaganda, presentation, speech, marketing" a skill, many people in the face of your colleagues or friends may be surging and talk, but in the face of your boss or in front of customers, it became a "shrink" ... Why?

In fact, a lot of time is the manuscript of your speech we generally use PPT or word preparation of the shortage, inflexible, where the taste, but also sometimes in your design does not really own.

So hard skill is your confidence, with enough hard hard skill you have 50% of the courage plus a good document (PPT Class) Your other 50% courage also have, at this time your presentation skill ascension.

So many times your presentation Skill is equal to hard skill+documentation Skill.

There is a film called "Chudler List" believe that many people have seen it? The first 30 minutes, relying on less than million "money" lucky Deloitte came to the Jewish gathering, found a Jewish accountant-Isaac Stein, he talked about his own company's plan, how to make money. Then Isaac Stein asked him:

Please let me understand one thing, I am out of a person, then I find "King" money, then what do you ...?

Chudler smoked a cigarette, his hands together after a push "presentation, this is my best good", this side of the presentation can also be considered a kind of packaging.

Similarly a Chinese-made cup and the United States, if the performance, function, service life are the same, I believe it must be American goods sold expensive, why? Because it has hard skill on the basis of the "packaging", which is "Hollywood-style" promotional practices.

To learn to "packaging" but not to pull the eggs and bragging, because the architect to take out even more beautiful, if there is no content that is "impostors", was worthless after the people. However, we have good quality and good technology on the basis of good to "packaging" it, I believe you will be a step closer to success.