What is “the seagull architect”? @KentBeck, creator of Extreme Programming & TDD, co-author of the Agile Manifesto: “The seagull, the seagull, the seagull, because, you fly in, make a bunch of noise, crap all over everything, and then you fly out” “They want to think, I am the designer of interfaces and I worked hard at this and I want to ask you a bunch of questions, and then I want to cogitate on that, and then I'm going to bring you the solution and then you'll thank me and pat me on the head. Of course that doesn't happen. You can't understand somebody else's problem as well as they do. And it's not exactly true. Your understanding of somebody else's problem is bounded because you're not in the middle of it."