Scott Ambler on the Green Shift

In Dr Dobb's Agile Newsletter, Scott Ambler writes about the "Green Shift":

After a bit of investigation we discovered that although myself and team members had been reporting the serious political challenges that the project team faced, when our project manager summarized our reports he decided to put a better spin on it and reported that the team found the project challenging. His manager in turn reworked it in his report that the team enjoyed the challenges it faced. This was the report which the CIO received.

This is the kind of behaviour that leads to systemic failure.