If your role in a company is so removed from the business or stakeholders that you're being assigned tasks like "add 15 fields", then IMO you're already in trou

If your role in a company is so removed from the business or stakeholders that you're being assigned tasks like "add 15 fields", then IMO you're already in trouble. That's part of a larger issue though, where we actually let non-technical people dictate technical specs to us.