That's normal nowadays, even in the most ridiculous of situations.
I once found that a system was getting a little expensive. As, AWS was billing us a million a month expensive. I figured this out, and came up with a plan that would cut it down to 80 thousand by spending 4 days: You know, a mild, 11 million a year of savings. Management insisted that the work had to go through scheduling, and intake, a process that would involve zero developers looking at anything, but would delay doing the task a month and a half.
And no, nothing the team was working on came even remotely close to that ROI. Following the process just cost an extra 1.5 million dollars.
I once found that a system was getting a little expensive. As, AWS was billing us a million a month expensive. I figured this out, and came up with a plan that would cut it down to 80 thousand by spending 4 days: You know, a mild, 11 million a year of savings. Management insisted that the work had to go through scheduling, and intake, a process that would involve zero developers looking at anything, but would delay doing the task a month and a half.
And no, nothing the team was working on came even remotely close to that ROI. Following the process just cost an extra 1.5 million dollars.