Yeah, this part is getting lost and there's a lot of apologists here. One of the oldest tricks in the book is to create a vision, make a promise, and then say "

Yeah, this part is getting lost and there's a lot of apologists here. One of the oldest tricks in the book is to create a vision, make a promise, and then say "I did my job, now engineering just has to do theirs" I'm reminded of a manager that would add features as I was finalizing a release, sometimes hours before without telling me. He would even add features to releases that already happened. In his mind, he seemed to think that he could just attach the features to a release, and bam. it's done!