SOFTWARE SOLUTION

ARCHITECT

Chris Shayan, Software Solution Architect, Pyramid Consulting

How to become Software Solution Architect

Who Am I?

My Start-Ups

Previous Ones New Ones in VN

Architecture

Thinking about Career as SSA

Technology Strategy Business Growth

Interpersonal Skills

Thinking about Career as SSA

Technology Strategy Business Growth Interpersonal Skills

Get involve in Open Source

Contribute, get involve in Knowledge Sharing portals

Have Sandbox and give a try

Help others by fixing

bugs or answering their

questions

Thinking about Career as SSA

Technology Strategy Business Growth Interpersonal Skills

Follow research and

advisory companies on IT

like Gartner, Forrester

and etc

Study Gartner Magic

Quadrants

Follow CIO or CTO

forums

Thinking about Career as SSA

Technology Strategy Business Growth Interpersonal Skills

inc.com is a good key

Follow Steve Blank

Get familiar with

concepts like ROI and

TCO

Study these books The Innovator’s Dilemma &

The Innovator’s Solution by Clayton

M. Christensen

The Tipping Point: How Little Things

Can Make a Big Difference by

Malcolm Gladwell

What Great Salespeople Do –

Michael Bosworth

Thinking about Career as SSA

Technology Strategy Business Growth Interpersonal Skills

Improve on

communication skills

Challenge yourself with

being disciplined

Get familiar with

Change Management

Understand what is

Knowledge Work and

who is Knowledge

Worker

Learn to inspire and be

open to be inspired

Life creates questions, together we can write answers.

-- Josh

Questions and Answers