> Dear Mr. Architect: > > Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one. [Monochrome Blog - If architects had to work like software developers](http://blog.monochrome.co.uk/2009/02/if-architects-had-to-work-like-software-developers/).

Painfully true. Very painfully.

I’m trying to decide if sending this to our product owner would be informative or insulting.