This indispensable new handbook focuses on 12 specific skills every software architect needs to succeed: skills involved in becoming a superior technologist and an outstanding technical champion in your organization.<br> <br> Ideal for both working and aspiring software architects, <b> <i>12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects </i> </b>is the perfect complement and follow-up to Dave Hendricksen's previous best-seller, <i>12 Essential Skills for Software Architects</i>. In this new guide, Hendricksen focuses on three sets of skills that will have the greatest impact on your ability to succeed and ascend:<br> <br> <b>Product Development Skills</b>: Partnership, Discovery, Modeling, Leverage, and Estimating<br> <b>Oversight Skills</b>: Platform/Project Oversight, Capital Planning, and Risk Management<br> <b>Visionary Skills</b>: Road Mapping, Researching, Trend Awareness, and Branding<br> <br> Unlike most software architecture guides, Hendricken's books place real-world practice in the context of the development organization <i>and</i> the business, and help you blend the optimal mix of both hard and soft skills. Both valuable initial instruction and a lasting reference, this guide will can help you earn <i>and succeed in</i> your next software architecture role -- in any organization, at any level.