Perhaps it's that disease of a profession named "project management". In the past we had engineers and architects running large projects. They knew the industry

Perhaps it's that disease of a profession named "project management". In the past we had engineers and architects running large projects. They knew the industry, the people, and how everything works. Now we have professional projects managers that don't really understand the details of what is actually required, or how things work, so they crank the process overhead up to almost fetish levels. Even in the IT world, a one year project just 10 years ago is now a 3 year project.