You routinely will witness the ‘everyone wants to be the architect’ behaviors, especially in large multi-disciplinary initiatives such as data centre modernisation, cloud architecture, or virtual infrastructure deployments.
Admittedly, architects carry a lot of weight. Driving the technical architecture and keeping the business onboard is no job for slackers and has a lot of perks. Yet, one bad architect, or too many architects, or pseudo-architects (the worst) drive a lot of great ideas straight into the ground.
So how do you tell the difference? Here are a few telltale traits:
