This may have come off the wrong way as a criticism of the people involved vs the process. My point is that iterative design processes tend to work better than

This may have come off the wrong way as a criticism of the people involved vs the process. My point is that iterative design processes tend to work better than waterfall (for new software projects). Architect / construction worker - sure. It is hard to iterate on a building - it has to be more less built as designed and therefore there is a huge onus on the architect to get it right the first time. Software is more malleable, at least at the start.