"The problem with John was not just that he was misinformed, but that he was misinformed and highly motivated." Oh yes! This rings so true with me. One of my

"The problem with John was not just that he was misinformed, but that he was misinformed and highly motivated." Oh yes! This rings so true with me. One of my biggest bug-bears in IT are the leaders who have the gift of the gab and know how to BS their way through life. They have that personality that allows them to talk about any subject and people will listen assuming that they now what they are talking about. If they know how to use those skills for the betterment of a project then they are fantastic people. In other words listening to the devs and using their skills to manipulate the higher ups to get more time and resources. Usually it works the other way round though by ignoring what the devs say and forcing their own will upon them. For example by insisting on switching to Scrum 9 months in to a 12 month project that had been happily running on waterfall up to that point.