I once completed a six month project that had a 9 page design doc, and the required director never signed off - but the work had to start. The project shipped

I once completed a six month project that had a 9 page design doc, and the required director never signed off - but the work had to start. The project shipped on time (successfully), but the director gave feedback on the design doc and asked for changes to the approach a day afterwards. Awkwardly, that director had no clue the project shipped the day prior without his input, and he held a special meeting with me to apologize for completely ignoring months of requests to review and approve the design doc. I hate design docs. I wasn’t even at Google, but worked somewhere that uses design doc culture. Thanks Google.