Comment by spaetzleesser

Whenever I hear the title "Architect" I have to think about certain segments of the IT department at my company and also the participants at my scrum master training. Both were full of "senior architects" that were good at talking but were so out of touch with reality that they couldn't contribute anything real. It's pretty easy to architect a system if you ignore the little, annoying details that make an implementation difficult. And to know what's hard you need hands-on implementation experience. These guys get away with their nonsense because often the implementation is outsourced to developers who just implement what they are told to do without asking questions. Never mind that the bad design decisions make the system much slower than it has to be and takes way more effort to implement.