This is true, but there's the question of what you do once you're in the situation. I've been on fucked projects and projects that shipped industry-leading pro

This is true, but there's the question of what you do once you're in the situation. I've been on fucked projects and projects that shipped industry-leading products. Success doesn't seem to correlate with a well-planned project. Instead it seems to correlate with how bloody-minded the participants are about shipping and moving forward from where they are. This annoys me, as I used to be quite the process/method evangelist, and of course cynical project managers exploit this.