Why this practice exists
After years inside enterprise software delivery, I saw the same pattern repeatedly: good people working hard inside systems that were not giving them enough clarity to succeed.
Sometimes the process was not actually agreed. Sometimes delivery had lost control around scope, traceability, testing, or decision flow. Sometimes cross-team work had become meeting-heavy but governance-light. In each case, the problem was not a lack of effort. It was a lack of structure that people could actually use.
This practice exists to fix that kind of problem in a bounded, high-judgment way.
