I actually think having business people who have control over what programmers do is the mistake very often. It leads to very bad decisions for the codebase as

I actually think having business people who have control over what programmers do is the mistake very often. It leads to very bad decisions for the codebase as a whole and the programmers often don’t know the best way to fit in the random business needs because they are never told why the feature should exist. I think we need a better method to be able to make the right decisions for the code while still achieving the desired outcomes without making quite such a mess. Maybe something like sessions where the business has to persuade the developers to build the features in detail rather than throwing random unclear solutions over the fence and saying we need this.