Methodologies are attractive for situations that are ambiguous. Lawyers and pilots have a clear cut set of procedures. Pilots aren't inventing new technologie

Methodologies are attractive for situations that are ambiguous. Lawyers and pilots have a clear cut set of procedures. Pilots aren't inventing new technologies each time they fly, they're just driving the bus from City A to City B and worrying about occasional edge cases. Lawyers follow legal procedures and have their own built-in rules and processes; they're tested on these processes to pass the bar. You see methodologies for things that vary wildly like sales, military leadership, and of course, engineering tasks. Each project, situation, or client could be extremely different, and it's not possible to build a prescriptive how-to for each scenario. So you create a methodology and framework so that managers and leaders can quantify uncertain situations and build (and alter) their own how-to's.