11 May 2005
Developers and architects: like managers and leaders?
Al Smith Jr’s JavaWorld article on developers and architects helps to clarify a distinction that is often muddied. But I don’t fully understand:
Knowing how to solve a problem’s context verses solving the problem itself distinguishes architects from developers.
I think I don’t connect with Smith’s meaning of context.
Reading it made me think of someone, somewhere, who stated that the distinction between managers and leaders is also muddied. I can’t remember who: was it Stephen Covey (of 7 Habits fame) or was it Alistair Mant?
