I'm never able to understand why businesses cannot accept this fact and incorporate it into project management. It seems that they'd rather throw 20 average eng

I'm never able to understand why businesses cannot accept this fact and incorporate it into project management. It seems that they'd rather throw 20 average engineers (using average technology) at a problem and just spend more money and time on all sorts of official-looking artifacts such as meetings and design documents. They often strike me as signalling devices to show that responsibility for the problem is being distributed among everyone in case something goes awry. They're certainly necessary, but they're almost always done to excess. Really, the heavy emphasis on 'collaboration' always seems hellbent on forcing ideas to fit some safe notion on how things should be done instead of just trusting individuals to figure it out for their own. What's the motive here? Fear? If so, why do we allow people in charge to project this?