Comment by tonyarkles

That's very true. The middle ground of that is that smart people, making a series of reasonable decisions, can still lead to a terrible destination. I've done it myself, and I've had teams describe multi-year developments where I can't point out a specific place they went wrong. People get caught up in that though, and they're often blind to it until a fresh set of eyes get on it.

[I've spent a lot of time this morning trying to articulate further, and I'm too distracted by the work I'm trying to do. Sorry.]