> what I described seems to skip that process and those personnel entirely You’re not wrong; however in many orgs this behavior is highly discouraged to the po

> what I described seems to skip that process and those personnel entirely You’re not wrong; however in many orgs this behavior is highly discouraged to the point of being grounds for termination, and for good reason: you’re sidestepping the design process in order to build something which may or may not be correct, then you have to go back and fix it anyways to meet the spec which wasn’t clear yet because you started development without nailing down the design first.