My experience as well. I have never worked with a non-coding business analyst or architect who provided any positive value to projects I worked on. Quite the op

My experience as well. I have never worked with a non-coding business analyst or architect who provided any positive value to projects I worked on. Quite the opposite. The secret to completing projects, when people like that are involved, is to ignore whatever input/demands they have and instead solve the actual customer problem. If that means deploying unnecessary tech X, demanded by some “authority”, but not actually use it in production that’s fine.