Project Management by Wishful thinking
I think you are forgetting the Negative nancy types are commonly back-filling into projects to stop them train-wrecking due to Incompetence - running project you don;t understand, not engaging stakeholders early enough to avoid making disastrous decisions and consequences for unfunded major remedial action later on. See almost any government IT project across the world for case studies here.
Project Management by Wishful Thinking, rarely delivers.