Ditto. In my experience it comes from our customer more then internally. They want all the risk reduction and stability provided by the old "waterfall" methods, but with the flexibility and speed of agile. But of course those two things don't mix. You need months if not years to plan a project the way they use to. We can't cram that amount of planning into a week.

Worse yet, once all those stories are made, they don't want us creating more. It takes a damn review board to get anything changed.