Most issue-tracking systems aren’t about engineering.

They’re about obedience.

Jira, tickets, velocity charts, standups — they form an obedience pipeline that rewards motion, compliance, and narrative alignment, not correctness. You can close tickets while production burns. You can be “on track” while behavior is wrong. The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect organizations from reality.

BDD breaks this spell.

BDD doesn’t track work — it encodes observable behavior. A scenario either passes or fails. There’s no meeting, rewording, or status update that can override it. That’s why BDD feels “slow” or “academic” to some: it collapses politics into binary truth. And truth is disruptive.

This is why issue tracking dominates and BDD doesn’t.

One produces comfort and plausible deniability.

The other produces accountability.

Only engineers who’ve carried production failures end-to-end see the difference.

Once you do, you can’t unsee it.

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