Our shop is probably ~700 devs. I lead one little team as a dev. Here’s what the late projects look like: No project kickoff with the business and architectur

Our shop is probably ~700 devs. I lead one little team as a dev. Here’s what the late projects look like: No project kickoff with the business and architecture. High visibility. Deadlines coming from people outside my hierarchy, with no explanation around who did it or why. Massive, massive scope increases. Estimates turned into “commitments” by my manager. Stress and pressure put down onto to team. The c-levels peering in. The team stressing out about the pressure. Managers creating more stress while I’m trying to promote can-do comrade and keep the morale up, even though I stress-drink at night. We missed our deadline today too. The business is in an arm wrestle to operate more like them, which we would call waterfall. But like my therapist said, who used to work in IT: “A deadline is missed. A cloud passes by. A squirrel climbes up a tree.” I need to keep with my chill self, know for myself personally that I bust ass, and gladly accept that corporate compensation.