> Scoping and planning is hard, specially with limited info, and you can't reasonably allocate 10x the resources to your project just to have a decent slack in

> Scoping and planning is hard, specially with limited info, and you can't reasonably allocate 10x the resources to your project just to have a decent slack in the critical path. Why not? If you don't have an accurate understanding of the problem you NEED to allocate extra time to gain that understanding or redevelop as the requirements emerge. > emergent technical requirements that dev teams didn't managed to see beforehand What? So developers that see poor breifs and ask for more time to manage that lack of information can't be given that time but then its the developers problem for not asking for more time to manage that? Your developers don't have a crystal ball! It's high time that Management stop blaming developers for the things managers control.