> just a symptom of having too many nonprogrammers around. Will resolve itself.
Parkinson's Law doesn't get enough of the blame for bad dev environments. It's so easy to feel like you're doing 40 hours of difficult, important work a week, while actually accomplishing fuck all at best (or generating more work overall at worst).
I bet a big chunk of the problems raised in this thread don't exist if everyone experiencing them cuts their team size in half.