In my experience this is a common problem in tech startups, often because "the boss" is a "business" guy who is imposing unfair things on engineering. For exam

In my experience this is a common problem in tech startups, often because "the boss" is a "business" guy who is imposing unfair things on engineering. For example, instead of following a lean startup or customer discovery method of determining the product, he is imposing feature-of-the-week management based on whatever random thing a "potential" customer wanted that week, and never changing the delivery date even though the spec (spec? No he just requests a feature, never integrates it with he product design) ... is constantly changing. And this isn't a specific example, this is just something that has happened so often that it seems to be an epidemic. I think Agile is partly to blame for this. Sure, changing direction every 2 weeks is ok, but you have to leave room for designing the new features, you can't just add them to the workload for the next sprint.