Development death marches are direct reflection of a company's product management. Show me a company that's constantly fighting to reach a development deadline,

Development death marches are direct reflection of a company's product management. Show me a company that's constantly fighting to reach a development deadline, and I'll show you a company with a product plan that's short-term, often dysfunctional and out-of-control. I've been there, both on the implementation side and on the management side. I was both a victim and an antagonist. Having seen both sides, it's much more difficult to grasp what's going on from the management side than from the team implementation side. The latest offense I'm seeing are those who follow iterative development cycles, using SCRUM or some other approach with 2-week sprints, with management assuming that means the laundry list of requests gets completed faster in the short-term. Anyone who asks me to join their dev organization (which happened a lot in 2011) now gets a standard question from me: what's your product management plan look like?