This was often an argument I read in my Systems Analysis textbooks back in that era: "Bob from Accounting threw together this app, now we need to replace it wit

This was often an argument I read in my Systems Analysis textbooks back in that era: "Bob from Accounting threw together this app, now we need to replace it with a staged CMMI-compliant development process that does things properly". IRL: it resulted in an expensive and late waterfall project that Bob, and the rest of his department hate. I'm sure that the code quality was atrocious, but in many ways, it is the ultimate Agile goal: Bob is solving his own problems, cutting through red tape, and addressing real business needs. It's a pity that the idea was abandoned, instead of finding ways to reduce the ways Bob could shoot himself in the foot.