Programming is like some kinds of work.

It is very much unlike operating an established manufacturing facility. But, about two thirds of dev work has a lot of parallels with creating a new manufacturing facility that manufactures a new kind of thing using new materials and techniques. The primary parallel is that a new facility requires a lot of discovery. Whereas if operating an existing facility constantly required a lot of discovery that disrupted operations it is likely the business team would pivot to something more lucrative.

Sadly most developers work in companies that have a manufacturing management system, which is inappropriate for managing development work, primarily because of pressure+timeline patterns typically applied via silo on silo kingdom building.