This is, yet another, cause vs correlation, misconception. Some successful projects had a bunch of experienced, smart and sensible developers who wrote down ho

This is, yet another, cause vs correlation, misconception. Some successful projects had a bunch of experienced, smart and sensible developers who wrote down how they did it after they did it. Some other good people agreed, this was how they worked (It was how many of us worked in the late 90s). Next thing, people started building runways in the middle of the forest and expecting planes to arrive with crates of goodies. The simple people, thinking there are solutions to developing complex software that they can simply apply and boom: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations