I can see how this can be true. I've seen a team of "star" programmers fail massively on what should be a simple project. They over designed, they used all t

I can see how this can be true. I've seen a team of "star" programmers fail massively on what should be a simple project. They over designed, they used all the new and latest, framework, language, plus spent all their time reinventing the wheel. They forgot about time/budget constraint. Meanwhile, a much less talented scrappy team, just figures, "Hey!, we ain't so smart so we are going to get all the help we can" No new technology, just small established libraries and simple design, KISS, and what do you know? they shipped! You can load up your sales team with talented sales agent and see massive output, they don't need much team interaction. But a dev team? If they are super smart, the problem better be tough or they will invent new problems to solve.