However, where I am, there is a huge emphasis on "getting shit done" well ahead of schedule. I'm lucky to work with smart and motivated folks who together, work well and we are wildly successful.
My biggest gripe, shared among many of my coworkers, is the level of micromanagement. Multiple business analysts, product owners, stakeholders, SCRUM masters, managers, etc. who all share essentially the same job - delegating and scheduling work. It makes every project 10x more difficult and complex than it otherwise should be.
An example just from this past week: Project A: we are delivering a single product. Three managers, two SCRUM masters, multiple business analysts. We engineers have four different JIRA/task-boards to keep up with. All of them overlap, three of them are essentially the same board in different spaces. Each day we have 2-4 hours worth of meetings spread across stakeholders amongst those three boards where we regurgitate the exact same information.
It's repetitive, backward, and a time-waste. Some engineers are currently "revolting" by saying what I'm saying now - in the meetings themselves. We've had multiple blowups with management.
Having meetings and discussions spread so wide leads to a lot of confusion because us engineers appear to be the only conduit with which the analysts and managers are communicating. Often times, the different stakeholders will ask for the same features in different meetings, other times they ask for different or conflicting features which leads to confusion and the need to schedule more meetings to clarify as they are not communicating amongst each other.