People abuse the notion of course, sometimes it means "this is something we didn't know we needed, and had we put it on the schedule we would have already have done it." Sometimes it means, "some outside force is putting pressure on the project so the timeline has shifted" and yes it can mean "I'm an idiot and don't know how to communicate urgency."<p>I wonder what the context is for the writer where they have encountered it so often, them mention IT but don't go into details.