> why can't software? It can, but remember that we lost the competency to Agile, which is centred around eliminating managers in favour of self-organizing team

> why can't software? It can, but remember that we lost the competency to Agile, which is centred around eliminating managers in favour of self-organizing teams. For a time we didn't think we needed managers at all. As we as an industry are coming to reject self-organization and now returning back to more formalized management again you might find some old timers from way back in the day who still remember how to manage, but if you watch any new manager coming onto the scene you will notice that they will reach for tools that were designed for operations without managers – because that's all they've ever known – introducing an interesting impedance mismatch. It will no doubt correct some day, but these kinds of things tend to happen at a glacial pace. It could take decades for managers to discover/rediscover tools that are actually suitable for management, rather than something meant for self-organizing teams. As before, newer managers don't know anything else, so the impedance mismatch isn't even immediately recognizable. The default assumption is that this is just how it is done.