[FpUser]

I was a software architect at the end of the 90s before becoming CTO and then going on my own so it is a bit rusty.

Most of my time was spent on high level design of complex business and B2B products and making sure that managers, business analysts and programmers do their jobs. Also selecting technologies etc. I still had about 50% of my time left for actual work so I would always pick some particular chunk and create design documents with diagrams given to programmers and would also code some chunk. I could have avoided doing any "productive" stuff but I did not want to loose touch. Being converted to a pure manager was not in my nature.