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Comment by solatic

2 days ago

Decisions rarely need to be made on-the-spot in synchronous meetings. You can have asynchronous approaches with shared documents and RFC processes, where you make everything available if people want to contribute to areas that they find interesting. This does not, of course, mean that decisions need to be made by committee, and people who provide feedback should understand that getting the privilege to provide input does not mean that they also get a veto.

It's quite rare to find companies that do this for the same reason it's quite rare to find companies willing to "do agile correctly" and really scope out work before sprints and not put additional work in the middle of a sprint. It takes too much effort and gives up too much flexibility for most managers to make the investment and see if it pays off.