The term last responsible moment has been bandied around in software development for some time. It appears to have come from TPS (the Toyota Production System) into Lean software development via Mary and Tom Poppendieck, then into XP (extreme Programming) and Agile.

As with so many ideas and stories that are passed down, the message gets mixed up along the way and the original intent gets lost. You can see Jim (Cope) Coplien bring this up in his GOTO 2017 talk, The Dehumanisation of Agile and Objects (timestamp 30:14)1.

YouTube: The Dehumanisation of Agile and Objects • James Coplien • GOTO 2017

Toyota Production System

TPS has 14 principles, the thirteenth of which Cope quotes in his talk:

Make decisions slowly by consensus, thoroughly considering all options; implement decisions rapidly.

Lean

XP / Agile