Anti-patterns

I'm currently a lead BSA, Product frequently asks delivery teams (Dev, QA, and BAs) to start work before scope is defined or SOWs are executed for efforts that require third-party vendors. For projects where we're actively engaged with vendors, the business requests that we work ahead, i.e., develop features and deploy them in dark mode until the vendor completes their effort. There can be several months between the completion of our work and the vendor's