{"id":598,"date":"2020-06-01T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:24:59","slug":"productivity-hacks-for-architects-designers-tech-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/productivity-hacks-for-architects-designers-tech-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity hacks for Architects \/ Designers \/ Tech Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As per my experience, the biggest productivity hacks for Architects \/ Designers \/ Tech Leads are not to decide the variables \/ class names \/ loops \/ scope \/ data types \/ exception handling \/ object relational mapping &amp; so on &#8211; they definitely are important and should be done, but so are the below points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Design patterns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. What is the code for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Functional to technical mapping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Solution creation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Pseudocode &amp; logic steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Logic of solution for design \/ programming problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Co-ordination with stakeholders &amp; communication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Code review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Logic review of programmed modules<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Architecture \/ Design thoughts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. Knowledge updation around tools \/ products \/ frameworks usage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. Time management of developers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13. Task management of developers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14. Solving problems in design<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15. Programming standards management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16. Technical best practices management<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17. New technology exploration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18. Helping sales, presales &amp; practice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19. Working on POCs, solutions, products and accelerators<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20. Updating oneself with the current happening in industry and domain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21. Automation, Security, Testing, Deployment, Continuous integration \/ deployment, Integrations, Logging, User Interface \/ User Experience, Application monitoring, Support structure, Clustering \/ Auto-scaling, Non functional requirements and other such important areas<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>22. Establish collaboration \/ teamwork among technical staff working with them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23. Right documentation and knowledge sharing practices<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many get stuck in only programming, that is definitely something we all love and do, but you should be dividing your time as an Architect \/ Tech Lead \/ Designer between programming and above tasks equally. 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