I found this post today via the DDJ Portal: (http://www.ddj.com/blog/architectblog/archives/2006/04/should_architec.html?cid=GS_blog_arnon)
My position is that architects MUST code in order to fully understand what they are asking the team to do. In fact, the architect must be engaged as a developer on the team he is ‘architecting’ for (Damn, I hate verbing nouns).
As far as being tasked [...]