Any software project where instructions must be followed to the letter, instead of having tech leaders communicating the _intent_ of an activity or component, w

Any software project where instructions must be followed to the letter, instead of having tech leaders communicating the _intent_ of an activity or component, where details are merely to be seen as suggestions, tend to either fail directly or be extremely wasteful. If the dev team is getting such instructions from someone in a different time zone, and communicate with them only once or twice per week, it gets even worse.