It's more than that, it's the cover-your-ass mentality that develops when every small part of your job is dictated by reams and reams of bureaucracy and policy.

It's more than that, it's the cover-your-ass mentality that develops when every small part of your job is dictated by reams and reams of bureaucracy and policy. Building successful products requires direct communication with users and organizational tolerance for making mistakes. Government replaces direct communication with requirements documents, and tolerance with "accountability", lest taxpayer funds be "wasted".