“Things that would take yourself maybe a couple of days to do in a way that sort of works become projects that span months or years in the enterprise.”
Fifty engineers is enough to turn a two-day job into a two-quarter migration. Brooks wrote this down in 1975. Every new methodology since has been sold as the fix, and every one of them has kept consultants employed. The industry keeps adding process because nobody gets promoted for admitting the team is too big.