I’m not in development myself, but I sit in a lot of planning and review meetings for internal tools and transformation projects. From what I’ve observed, the word “minimal” means very different things depending on the department, and that’s where most of the drift starts. Even when teams agree on the goal, each group naturally tries to reduce its own future risk by adding “small” requirements early. Over time, those small additions accumulate into something much larger than originally intended. It’s interesting how the structure of decision-making inside a company can shape the final product more than the technical team actually building it.