> and even the tiniest of development work required the "initiation" of a "project" with budget planning and approvals.
That's fully automateable though, right? Sounds like my script to upload a PR, create a JIRA ticket with the same name, link them up, auto-Done on merge.
At the company I was speaking of, the business approval step involved many internal (and sometimes external meetings) and preparation of a feature and OKR document.
While this was the obvious way of doing things there, without this project step I also don’t think it’d have been regarded as a valid classification step for tax purposes.
You cant automate the tactical assessment of "do we want to incur this tax?" Not easily anyway