There should be a process for project planning other than "a manager was in a meeting and agreed to it." That process should not require people to show up in me

There should be a process for project planning other than "a manager was in a meeting and agreed to it." That process should not require people to show up in meetings. This brings up my overall view that being technical can often make a manager take short term shortcuts. That works right until it no longer does and then you have a broken team and culture and processes. Not thinking technically means you are forced to implement good long term processes and not keep monkey patching things. For example, if the managers keeps making these decisions in meetings then senior engineers will wonder how they can have their voice heard except by going into management.