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On the other hand I’ve worked on projects where talking is a prop to disguise that no-one knows what to do. Where a dozen people sit in a room and talk for an hour without saying anything and we all walk out dumber than when we walked in.

This rings very true to me. And the more annoying extension is that the "managerial types" justify their time spent on work with these meaningless bs talks, while devs are guilt tripped every time they've to explain time spent on thinking / analysis.