This is also very true in the presales engagements by top consulting firms under "Digital Transformation". These presales teams would come and show, on paper, how great they are with the agile practices, devops, microservices, you name it.
However, it's a totally opposite story during the actual implementations. I've witnessed that it took a top consulting firm 4 months to provision a sandbox environment while being 1 month away from the first release. When asked about their proud DevOps practices, you'd hear excuses that are in the blatant lie territory. They knew they could get by by managing the stakeholders instead of really doing what they had promised.
However, it's a totally opposite story during the actual implementations. I've witnessed that it took a top consulting firm 4 months to provision a sandbox environment while being 1 month away from the first release. When asked about their proud DevOps practices, you'd hear excuses that are in the blatant lie territory. They knew they could get by by managing the stakeholders instead of really doing what they had promised.