> Then what were the literally room full of formal process and spec documents, meeting reports and formal agreements (near 100.000 pages) by the analysts on eit

> Then what were the literally room full of formal process and spec documents, meeting reports and formal agreements (near 100.000 pages) by the analysts on either side for? And how did those not 'solve' the understanding problem? Sure. There are many possible factors (eg. somebody had a shitty idea and a committee of people sabotaged it because they didn't wanted it to succeed, or it was good but committee interests/politics were against it, or it was generally a dysfunctional org) but it's irrelevant so let's pretend people are good and it's the ideal case. There was likely somebody who had a good idea originally. However somebody failed to communicate it. Somebody brought vague vibes to the table with N people and they ended up with N different ideas and could not agree on a specific. It just reiterates the original problem that I described doesn't it?