There is such a thing as a first mover advantage, as long as one doesn't focus on competitors as much as unserved / underserved customers. Pretty often people

There is such a thing as a first mover advantage, as long as one doesn't focus on competitors as much as unserved / underserved customers. Pretty often people that heavily emphasize the competition and push arbitrary timelines have taken shortcuts, or at least aren't being transparent enough to satisfy the team. They may also just be competitive by nature and insecure due to a lack of experience, and bad at communicating - also, due to a lack of experience. Agile / Scrum: people quickly realized that they had to give up control in order to be agile. It's possible to do Agile and to structure a waterfall software project into smaller chunks that feel agile, but you need PM's who know how to do that, and they need to show their work to the team in order to get buy-in. It's too bad the jargon got abused to the point of garnering resentment.