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I was working on a project where the clients actually did something similar. Always managed to sneak in a requirement/feature or two directly to the developer. We were working too close to the client in this scenario and did a lot of work which we didn't charge for. Ran a big loss at the end of the day. We're talking millions. We learnt a very important lesson from this.

P.S. CEO and VP's are also clients at the end of the day. Just internal ones. They should be treated the same as external ones. They should follow the correct routes if they want to add/change requirements.

One thing I like about scrum (and I don't like everything about it) is that it is very clear on setting boundaries in this area. It protects the developer from these pitfalls very nicely.
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