The Importance of Talking to Your Chief Architect

"I've run billion dollar businesses before your 60k contract is not going to kill, you know, me or my company. So it's fine," he says. "We talked to him zero times about the contract ... We just said, hey, tell us what you're building... And let's just have a discussion" The chief architect actually is no longer with this company and now works at a very large financial institution.