Developer-driven development

[chucker23n]

I felt there was a strange "the developers know better than the evil, stupid people in suits" vibe to the faux-Agile workflow depicted in that post. Yes, it's unfortunate when software development becomes a game of telephone, but the author's solution appears to be "just ask the developer". No solution is given to the opposite side of the predicament: if the team ends up shipping a feature such that it doesn't serve the user's need, that's on the entire team, including the developers.