Make it 100x as much with 5 times as many people in 10 times as long. Efficiency is never important when there is money to burn and it's not yours, and you won'

Make it 100x as much with 5 times as many people in 10 times as long. Efficiency is never important when there is money to burn and it's not yours, and you won't be blamed when it breaks. It does not even take any emergency - often it is conscious or subconscious project management strategy. It's related to observations about Peter principle, Dilbert principle, Gervais principle and office politics and dynamics. Avoiding this tendency is essentially only possible with small teams with full ownership of the problem they're working on and direct stakes.