> They think they're adding value by just pushing people constantly. Isn't this what traditionally most managers were doing? I remember my first job, decades

> They think they're adding value by just pushing people constantly. Isn't this what traditionally most managers were doing? I remember my first job, decades ago, before agile was a thing, when I had this interaction with my boss constantly: "How long is this new feature going to take?" "Not sure, probably three weeks." "Are you absolutely sure it can't be done in two weeks?" "Well, I guess in the lucky case it might be possible, but..." "Great, so two weeks it is." Then complaining about how I said two weeks and broke my promise, when it actually took two weeks and a half. The only difference is that now you can do it with numbers, so it seems more "scientific", even if all numbers are ultimately just guesses.