Years ago, one of my mentor gave me a piece of advice that sounded oddly simplistic at the time: “Give ’em the bones, and they’ll play with it.” I laughed when I first heard it. Back then, I interpreted it as a shortcut mindset. A way of saying “just throw something out there” Over the years, working across enterprise programs, modernization initiatives, and high pressure delivery environments, I realized it meant something far more practical. It was never about lowering standards. It was about understanding how organizations react to uncertainty. As architects, we operate in an uncomfortable middle layer: The…