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A related issue that we, software engineering people, ignore the design-implement workflow other engineering areas successfully use, mainly because that is not agile enoughtm.

Unless teams are bound by some ISO to have design documentation timestamped earlier than feature DoD, engineering process gets flipped on its head and design docs are quite likely to be simply braindumps of some uninterested party rather than formal-ish specifications driving the implementation.

> when we have plenty of mature tools and established best practices that people don't care to learn.

Hyper-fixation on agile and "move fast and break things" attitude is in part to blame here. You can't really put a timebox on "learn how to use mature tooling" or storypoint "design architecture", when only implementation is rewarded.