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 On 12/3/2013 8:35 PM, Stephen Cameron wrote: Hi Peter, you are lucky 100th posting on this thread.Steve, I share your apprehension, but there is a component of planning and building software I think of as architecture that is not business analysis. It relates to layering: some components are more fundamental: making changes in those can lead to seismic shifts throughout the system, while surface (UI) changes tend to be more isolated. Certainly new user requirements will lead to new data requirements, new fields, tags, whatever, but if you decide to change your database system from Oracle to MarkLogic (or vice-versa, heresy here I know), that to me is an architectural decision. It may require you to rewrite significant portions of your code, or switch in other related components. And these decisions can often be made in parallel with - only partially informed by - business requirements. This sort of decision is best made by considering technical suitability to the problem, team skills, and goodness of fit with existing tools and systems. Sometimes (often) however the decision is driven by business leaders or outside sales teams based on dubious grounds. -Mike PS My title is (senior) architect, but I don't do business analyst: in sorrier moments I think I got called that because I'm old for a programmer, more or less. I sincerely hope this line of argument is motivated by more than mere self-justification! 
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