Enterprise Architects should work on real projects

Martin Fowler has a link to Rebecca Parson's article on Enterprise Architects staying connected to development teams. This is an important thread of meaning in my thoughts on Service Oriented Gridlock- and the danger of the false architectures. My theory is that CIO groups, such as enterprise architects, should submit requirements to projects, and fund requirements to projects, such that they are prioritized along with other project requirements, such as ones actually requested by customers...