[MattRogish]

Absolutely. And you lost me from the first point:

"A software architect lives to serve the engineering team -- not the other way around."

This implies the SA is not a member of the engineering team. Or if they are, they're "special" in a way the rest of the team isn't. And that I whole-heartedly disagree with. Most of the other things I expect every member of the team to do, anyway.

So if your point was to say - "Everyone in the dev team needs to be the SA", then yes, you're right. But that's not how it reads.

[geebee]

I agree. Reading through this list, I wonder what we would lose by replacing "software architect" with "lead developer" or even just "really good developer". It seems like the list would retain its meaning, without the potentially muddying effects of a word (architect) that comes loaded with all kinds of preconceptions.