[rramadass]

Well written article focusing on essential big picture nuances that we should be aware of.

Overconfident developers w.r.t. a) Coding skills b) Learning new technologies c) Our abstractions d) External dependencies - Better thought of as developers underestimating the problem complexity. I think the Dunning-Kruger effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect) is very much at play here since there is so much different and new out there that you are perpetually in a learning mode. Note that "In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task." I think that we cannot escape this but must learn to modulate it.

Inexperienced/Incompetent/Negligent Managers - The article points out some characteristics which i am sure we all can relate to. Only proper training can mitigate this.

Mismanaged stakeholders - Better thought of as Risk Factors/Management/Communications.