Similar story, in a larger firm. There are internal incentives where teams are compared against each other and a lot of it hinges on delivering things when a team said it would.
This leads to all sorts of strategies to make that happen: from cutting corners, to underpromising, to padding estimates. In the end, the sum of it all is that nobody is able to paint an accurate picture of the capabilities of teams overall because everything is so heavily skewed by internal incentives and competition.
This leads to all sorts of strategies to make that happen: from cutting corners, to underpromising, to padding estimates. In the end, the sum of it all is that nobody is able to paint an accurate picture of the capabilities of teams overall because everything is so heavily skewed by internal incentives and competition.