Every other time I've seen architects used on the business end, you wind up with huge messes that take a long time to produce anything of business value while d

Every other time I've seen architects used on the business end, you wind up with huge messes that take a long time to produce anything of business value while developers basically sit idle or flail around trying to build prototypes based upon very vague ideas. This isn't to say it's useless, but YAGNI principle is violated on the business side very frequently and costs themselves significantly. You tend to get messes that define an entire lexicon of thought down to minutiae like DoDaF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Defense_Architecture_Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Defense_Architec...