Our field is a little bit weird. Twitter "success stories" (yes, with quote, since we never actually see the internal code of Twitter, and considering that the

Our field is a little bit weird. Twitter "success stories" (yes, with quote, since we never actually see the internal code of Twitter, and considering that they have many developers since that is their core) is probably not applicable to "business enterprise software". I believe there are attempts to fit solution for case X to case Y already in the history of software projects. I'm not sure if that went well.