Our Chief Architect is probably the biggest contributor of code, and I can't imagine it being any other way. He definitely leads by example. Some of our custome

Our Chief Architect is probably the biggest contributor of code, and I can't imagine it being any other way. He definitely leads by example. Some of our customers (Enterprise) have these 'architect' types that just draw pretty vizio pictures, and I can't see how they aren't just laughed out of the room when it comes time to make actual decisions. But I guess once you have 4+ layers of management and decision making it's easy to fall into crazy town.