>Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in isolation, where we couldn't discuss his decisions. I had opportunity to see some projects that w

>Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in isolation, where we couldn't discuss his decisions. I had opportunity to see some projects that went in the wrong direction by bad architectural decisions resulting from an opposite behaviour. Every architectural decision would be made based on everyone's input where most junior people's opinions would weight the same as most experienced. In the end decisions were made primarily based on how simple the solution appears and not based on its suitability for performance, future extensibility, maintainability etc.