[ryandrake]

It's also part of the dog-and-pony show of self-promotion most companies make you do in order to justify promotion. Being Engineer 1 on a team of 6 that made GreatProductX is never enough. You always need to show what you single-handedly did. So all of a sudden, six different people claim to have "created GreatProductX".

[nitwit005]

No, at least seven people make the claim. You forgot about the managers claiming credit for their employee's efforts.

[taylodl]

It just couldn't have happened without the delivery managers, project managers, product managers, scrum masters, project controllers, business analysts...

What a funny world we live in! :)

Getting back to reality, ideas and prototypes are easy. Execution and delivery is hard.