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And then when you have issues with this kind of stuff when your own managers do it, they'll just turn to you and say, "you don't understand how business works"
You're right, yes, business is a field made for liars.
Had this on Friday.
Net result is that we've pushed a major problem into the next phase without giving ourselves more time to do anything about it. ...and people wonder why projects are "late" at the last moment.
"The Mythical Man-Month" is a book written in the 70s based on experiences from software development in the 60s, and project managers still cling to the myths about project planning it debunked conclusively.
This is a success because we said so.
Hey, those executives worked very hard on their coloring sheets in business school!