That cynical take is actually quite accurate in many contexts.
People are definitely trained via bad managerial incentives to do this and end up doing it even without thinking.
It's also funny how people talk agile but then want full project estimates with milestones down the line because that's how they get to pretend that:
- they can give real assurances to the customer
- they're valuable PMs with a tech contribution (when it's mostly the M&M customer management and meetings, they're good at)
There's all flavours of situations and people, of course, but it's definitely a common trend in companies, even those that have high renown and are seen as leaders of an industry.
People are definitely trained via bad managerial incentives to do this and end up doing it even without thinking.
It's also funny how people talk agile but then want full project estimates with milestones down the line because that's how they get to pretend that: - they can give real assurances to the customer - they're valuable PMs with a tech contribution (when it's mostly the M&M customer management and meetings, they're good at)
There's all flavours of situations and people, of course, but it's definitely a common trend in companies, even those that have high renown and are seen as leaders of an industry.