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The Professional Architect
January/February 2012 (vol. 29 no. 1)
pp. 12-13
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Grady Booch, "The Professional Architect," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 12-13, January/February, 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2012.17,
author = {Grady Booch},
title = {The Professional Architect},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {29},
number = {1},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2012},
pages = {12-13},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2012.17},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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All complex systems grow from smaller systems that work in the first place; all complex systems will fail, in one way or another. Between the small and the large, between the perfect and the flawed, there is some person or persons who had a vision for the shape of things to come. We call such people"architects."

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Index Terms:
architecture, software-intensive systems, profession, the Matrix, dying
Citation:
Grady Booch, "The Professional Architect," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 12-13, Jan.-Feb. 2012, doi:10.1109/MS.2012.17
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