Andrew Harmel-Law argues that traditional centralized architecture practices create bottlenecks and don't scale. He proposes the Architecture Advice Process, where anyone in an organization can make architectural decisions as long as they seek advice from affected parties and domain experts. This shifts the architect's role from decision-maker to advice-giver and conversation-curator. The process distributes both responsibility and accountability, encourages knowledge sharing over hoarding, and requires cultural change. Key failure patterns include senior architects still controlling decisions, off-the-radar decisions bypassing the process, and lack of trust among team members.
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