I was listening to show number 426 on dotnetrocks: Rob Boucher on Application Architecture Guidance! They mentioned the Patterns And Practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0, this guide is available for free on codeplex.

Although it is a Microsoft technology centric guide, there should be chapters for every developer in your group.

Here is one example from the book

Key Design Principles

When getting started with your design, bear in...

Creativity is a wonderful thing. It’s also something different for each of us, which is why sometimes our perspectives on the world can produce conflicting ideas on what is the right way and the wrong way to do things. This is a very common facet of the IT world, in particular making computer software, solutions and services.

We don’t need architects! …Do we ?

It’s important for us to remember that we develop software to “do something” that we want it to do. In which case we need to continually review the success of that software or...