I agree with you. But it was not what I was talking about when I was talking about useless direction and trying to solve non-problem. The situation you descri

I agree with you. But it was not what I was talking about when I was talking about useless direction and trying to solve non-problem. The situation you describe is indeed a management and leadership failure. But if you don't have management and leadership failure, you still have useless direction and trying to solve non-problem. It's just mathematical, it's just a feature of what happens when you work in a collaboration and have a group that implement the product and another group who owns it. It's not a judgement on the capacity of the devs: even the best dev will deviate. It is just because uncertainties always exist and the more you advance without realigning, the more you deviate. Let's also notice that the devs realign, but the management realign also, refining their understanding of what is possible or not and so on.