It sounds pretty standard, and it doesn't sound like the OP has put a lot of work into considering why it works the way it does. Know that annoying executive w

It sounds pretty standard, and it doesn't sound like the OP has put a lot of work into considering why it works the way it does. Know that annoying executive who likes to come to the development team and ask them for work? That's what the OP is doing. And how he then loudly laments that he will have to follow some process to have his request added to a backlog, before, at some opportune time in the future, it can be considered and possibly scheduled for being implemented? Yup, OP again. We hate it when process hits us, but you'd hate it even more if there was none.