The pendulum swung, and now we bias towards action rather than design. But to be honest, the "software architect" era wasn't great either, with people in the ro

The pendulum swung, and now we bias towards action rather than design. But to be honest, the "software architect" era wasn't great either, with people in the role sometimes not qualified, spending months on an architecture behind the curtain, releasing some over-verbose spec document that doesn't match the product needs, cargo-culting the latest fad from Martin Fowler.