Managers usually over staff because it’s an easy lever available to them to cover their ass. If the project fails or is late, a simple criticism is, “Why didn’t

Managers usually over staff because it’s an easy lever available to them to cover their ass. If the project fails or is late, a simple criticism is, “Why didn’t you scale up the team?” They can avoid this criticism and shift the focus to externalities such as shifting requirements, late dependencies, etc.