Oh I’m not a big fan of it either. Especially because I’ve never really seen a lot of the “fake work” have much value. Usually enterprise architecture or whatev

Oh I’m not a big fan of it either. Especially because I’ve never really seen a lot of the “fake work” have much value. Usually enterprise architecture or whatever you want to call it ends up being an insane amount of aged documentation that is useless because it’s never updated despite the best intentions. Over the years it’ll typically also erode its own standards as the people leading the efforts change and their standard preferences change with them. Last but not least, it’s a total waste of time to have actual developers do it. Instead of working on something useful. Of course the challenge then becomes that 90% of the architects and whatever actually don’t know how to write their own design documents from changes, which means they need to waste developer time to do it… meaning that no only are they a completely useless employee they are also wasting the time of useless employees. This shouldn’t be taken as black and white. As I wrote earlier, it can be done to help work flow. It’s just than in reality these processes usually end up doing far more harm than good. But if you, are, going to do it, at least enforcing standard is the right thing to do. I personally avoid working at places with too much bureaucracy because I don’t want to waste my time writing documents nobody will ever read after they are approved.