Architecture team management = balancing strategic work with delivery support.
Activities:
Daily:
- Standup with team.
- Unblock individual architects.
- Respond to urgent escalations.
Weekly:
- Architecture Review Board.
- Project status reviews.
- One-on-ones with each architect.
Monthly:
- Cross-architect sync.
- Standards review.
- Strategy adjustment.
Quarterly:
- Roadmap planning.
- Architect community of practice.
- Talent / capability review.
Allocation:
- Each architect maps to projects / domains.
- Avoid spreading too thin.
- Cross-coverage for redundancy.
Engagement:
- Architects need both strategic time AND delivery presence.
- Too much strategy = ivory tower.
- Too much delivery = no architecture leadership.
- Balance ~60/40 toward delivery.
Performance:
- Recognised contributions.
- Measurable outputs (architecture artefacts, decisions, mentorship).
- Career progression paths.
Senior insight: manage architects different from engineers. Architects need strategic time + autonomy. Micromanagement kills creativity.
The senior framing: trust architects with their domains. Provide strategic direction; let them execute.