Before anyone gets creative with their parsing: the subject of this analysis and the author are two entirely separate entities.
Consider this a bug report.
Except this time, the bug had access to the roadmap.
I'm talking about that fascinating professional category capable of turning incompetence into confidence, bullshit into strategy, and bluffing into a career.
And the best part is that, for a while, it actually works.
You can bluff.
You can sell confidence instead of competence.
You can fill meetings with words, turn processes into theater, and bury problems under explanations complicated enough to make it look like the blame always belongs somewhere else.
You can even convince yourself that managing people means manipulating the perception of what's happening, instead of taking responsibility for what you do.
For a while, it can work.
The problem is that reality has this annoying habit of producing measurable results.
And when incompetence, arrogance, and a certain talent for snake-oil salesmanship start leaving enough wreckage behind, even the most patient companies eventually do the math.
Maybe after spending money.
Maybe after burning energy.
Maybe after wasting time and losing good people.
But eventually, they do.
And that's when the castle of storytelling finally collides with that ancient, decidedly non-agile concept we call "consequences".
Some call it accountability.
Some call it corporate natural selection.
Romantically, I prefer to call it karma.
Because you can pretend to know how to do a job for a very long time.
The difficult part is keeping the act going once the people around you start looking at results instead of slides.
And thankfully, there are still companies healthy enough to realize, even if a little late, that sometimes the best way to improve a product isn't to add a feature.
It's to remove a bug.
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