Allen, you're naming something most orgs know is broken but won't say out loud.
It signals that someone promised a date before anyone understood the problem. The real dysfunction is upstream: an org that demands fixed scope and fixed dates because it's never built the trust needed to fund teams instead of projects.
No discussion is ever over, it seems 😄. We are definitely in the "doomed to repeat it" stage.
This discussion was already over.
We forgot about Taylorism's and Cascade after their epic fail.
But now they are back. Disguised as SDD and SPD
Allen, you're naming something most orgs know is broken but won't say out loud.
It signals that someone promised a date before anyone understood the problem. The real dysfunction is upstream: an org that demands fixed scope and fixed dates because it's never built the trust needed to fund teams instead of projects.