[joduplessis]

I've started calling it EDD - Executive Driven Development.

Senior stakeholders get into a room, decide they need xyz for the project to really succeed, push this down to managers who in turn try perform miracles with what little development resource they have. Very often they also have an offshore team who is only concerned with prolonging the contract as much as possible, rather than delivering. 2 weeks later senior stakeholders get back into the room...

[kykat]

I don't know any other industry where non-technical unqualified people can just decide everything in the way that it's done with software/IT

[Ensorceled]

Oh they TRY to ... it's just that the "non-technical unqualified people" get brought to heal (usually) by regulations. I've been in the room where people have tried to force a decision and a PEng, Lawyer, or CA/CPA had to say "absolutely not". It happens all the time, which is why you NEED regulations.