There are Marchitects, Tarchitects, and Farchitects (Market-oriented, Technology-oriented, and umm... "freaking" architects). Sounds like you have a team of Fa

There are Marchitects, Tarchitects, and Farchitects (Market-oriented, Technology-oriented, and umm... "freaking" architects). Sounds like you have a team of Farchitects. I have the title "architect", and I write code. It's usually code that lets the other thirty programmers write one or two lines of code instead of 200 lines, 30 times, in 17 different ways. Because it is framework code, I'm often providing them the Lego blocks to build the rest of their system in... With unit tests... and examples... and at least one real implementation... and a Wiki page explaining it... and a Powerpoint session teaching them how I expect them to use it. I do get the occasional grumble ("Uhh... Can't I just use Doohickey V directly?" "Sure, take a look at the interface, and don't forget the externalized configuration." "Oh.") Just sayin'. There are architects and there are Architects.