Barely anyone applies it that way. It is just authoritarianism with a different coat of paint, at least in my 20 years long career it inevitably always was. Th

Barely anyone applies it that way. It is just authoritarianism with a different coat of paint, at least in my 20 years long career it inevitably always was. There are no problems with giving estimates. The problems start when managers first say "don't worry if it's not accurate, just give me an estimate" and the next week say "it's not okay to give a wrong estimate". It's no use, man. I communicated with quite a few of them. They don't do anything and just panic when their manager gets unhappy and start putting pressure on their team. That's it. That's all. There's rarely any other process going on. I recently did work for two organizations that weren't that stupid and allowed leeway and had flatter structure. I liked them but they were prone to succumb to the council of elders trope where a few seniors basically decided everything and stopped listening to arguments. I'm not saying that we shouldn't try. I'm saying we should also read some history and ask people who have been through it as well. And everyone and their dog are convinced that them and only them know the secret sauce that will finally solve management (lol). Human ego is fascinating, isn't it?