In my experience it often comes down to business processes. We have a guy in my extended team who knows everything about his side of the company. When I work wi

In my experience it often comes down to business processes. We have a guy in my extended team who knows everything about his side of the company. When I work with him I accomplish business altering deliveries in a very short amount of time, which after a week or two rarely needs to be touched again unless something in the business changes. He’s not a PO and we don’t do anything too formally because it’s just him, me and another developer + whatever business manager will benefit from the development (and a few testers from their tran). In many ways the way we work these projects are very akin to Team Topologies. At other times I’ll be assigned projects with regular POs, Architects and business employees who barely know what it is they are doing themselves, with poorly defined tasks and all sorts of bureaucratic nonsense “agile” process methods and well spend forever delivering nothing. So sometimes I’m a 50x developer delivering business altering changes. At other times I’m a useless cog in a sea of pseudo workers. I don’t particularly care, I get paid, but if management actually knew what was going on, and how to change it… well…