This article is a good demonstration of what is deeply wrong with today’s corporate IT. And why any big enough company will sooner or later rotten. And why work at such a company these days feel so meaningless and mundane.

For example

> Thankfully, the signals that help us to invent work are already out there, and they arrive from four directions - from the systems, from the users, from your organization, and from the industry. What follows is a guide to reading each of them.

In a good “ideal” org the only source of requirements should be users, aka customers, aka real people, user facing products, teams etc.

There must be no room for speculations and “engineering” (aka over engineering), nor performance review driven development.

I would personally fire anyone “inventing” work. Even if it’s myself.