Non technical managers are also guilty of this. An IT guy I knew would create the giant "system architecture proposal" binders; even for smaller requests. Heavy

Non technical managers are also guilty of this. An IT guy I knew would create the giant "system architecture proposal" binders; even for smaller requests. Heavy detailed beasts that had 500-1000 pages. His requests were always funded before any of the other IT staff who would just create a single page summary. Funny part was that a significant portion of the binder would be things like all the associated RFCs in their entirety. Even pages of dilbert comics.