Does this make sense?

To the question - posed to a designer of a part of the system we are working on - "Has development for either of <design document references> started yet do you know?" I get the reply;

"I believe that the development has started for some components but I am not sure. Are the component teams required to check <requirements tool>and produce compliance documents?"

Also for a document that is still in DRAFT status but is (probably) in development;

Q - "Surely it only gets versioned at 1.0 when the approvals are in?"

A - "Ideally yes. But this basically signifies that the design has been reviewed. The people on the 'Approvers' list need to approve but they would take a long time as they are pretty busy, I guess."

I know this is all very waterfall. Did I mention we're supposed to be on an AGILE project...

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