Yes I definitely feel that technical expertise and trust is needed in decision making for all projects. In my current team, developers don't have much influenc

Yes I definitely feel that technical expertise and trust is needed in decision making for all projects. In my current team, developers don't have much influence (lol um.. I mean just me as I'm the only 100% full stack) and we have non-technical leadership. One problem is our tech leader isn't familiar with our programming language or development framework (worked with a different stack entirely). Also, both the tech leader and the Scrum master do not trust us to make any API or front end changes that aren't listed on the sprint board. Everything must be decided during sprint planning for the two-week sprint. So, if there's some code that obviously needs refactoring, or small code improvements (i.e. anything that's not on the board), every Pull Request is rejected. What's that you say? "Create an explanatory task/story ahead of time, and mention it during planning?" Sorry, I've tried that many times and they were all de-prioritised and post-poned. So, no trust both ways it seems! and now I'm ranting on HN Edited: grammar