I often see a bad split between the ideas/specifications, and execution of a software project. On one side there's the project style where everything is designe

I often see a bad split between the ideas/specifications, and execution of a software project. On one side there's the project style where everything is designed and specified by non-programmers (i.e. people who don't end up coding the thing), then thrown to the programmers to make it work. On the other hand there's plenty of programmers that just want to write beautiful code and care little about how useful the result is. In my opinion you get better results when most people involved are fundamentally problem solvers, some happen to be awesome at writing code, and all are working together closely.