Hello. Article author here. You can do this and it might be the appropriate approach in some situations, but you run the risk of degrading your reputation with management. Putting aside the personal risk, I tend to think of maintaining your reputation with your teammates as more important in the long run than accomplishing something or being right about any particular issue, since it preserves your ability to persuade them in the future.
Also I've found that if management is resistant to change they usually have good reasons, even if sometimes they can't or won't share them, so circumventing them can sometimes be counter-productive. Usually better to just be on the up-and-up.
Also I've found that if management is resistant to change they usually have good reasons, even if sometimes they can't or won't share them, so circumventing them can sometimes be counter-productive. Usually better to just be on the up-and-up.