Say what you will about large corporations but at the very least they can get this right. I'm working for a 4,000+ company now and we take these steps very seri

Say what you will about large corporations but at the very least they can get this right. I'm working for a 4,000+ company now and we take these steps very seriously during our Engineering design. Also part of the job is working with vendors (Oracle, HP, others) who send people on sight from around the world to work with us (the client) and properly interview for the right knowledge. Call me bias, but a lot of smaller companies overlook tried and tested standards. Proper requirement elicitation was documented in IEEE Computer Society SWEBOK prior to 2004 and even that is a summary of important knowledge to Software Engineering profession. Why is it that when a new company comes along with a truly innovative concept they feel they can innovate the rest of the process as well?