You seem to have come to if from the wrong direction. The entire idea behind the Rational Process was that in the future, your architects would have to every 2

You seem to have come to if from the wrong direction. The entire idea behind the Rational Process was that in the future, your architects would have to every 2 months or so come down from their conference rooms and talk to the *grasp* developers. IBM had quite a hard time selling this idea. So they decided to push their marketing people outside of their target customers. That may be how they got to you.