> Your non-techie peers just don’t get it, no matter how many times you try to make them understand
In my opinion this is more common to software development only because software developers, at laest in Europe, do not have the same social recognition as other professionals. An undisciplined PM/PO interrupting everybody to get estimates to update their GANTT chart will be as disruptive in an operating theater or in a legal office as they are in a software development team. Society just decided to not allow randos (as in people with no medical training) in operating theaters while welcoming them (as in people with no development training) in software development teams. Worse than that, these randos often have more power than the professionals doing the work. Surgeons would be complaining and people would be dying, if scrum-certified noisy "servant-leader" PMs were allowed to decide how to carry out operations.
In my opinion this is more common to software development only because software developers, at laest in Europe, do not have the same social recognition as other professionals. An undisciplined PM/PO interrupting everybody to get estimates to update their GANTT chart will be as disruptive in an operating theater or in a legal office as they are in a software development team. Society just decided to not allow randos (as in people with no medical training) in operating theaters while welcoming them (as in people with no development training) in software development teams. Worse than that, these randos often have more power than the professionals doing the work. Surgeons would be complaining and people would be dying, if scrum-certified noisy "servant-leader" PMs were allowed to decide how to carry out operations.