The Usual Development Cycle

The finished product is nothing like it started out to be.

Someone had a bright idea, to begin with, and started to develop it. If he was lucky, he was allowed to turn this into a successful product, that many people could benefit from.

But this takes time and money, and these are often in short supply. Ideas that involve improvement of already successful ideas have the best chance of being adopted.

A successful development process may involve many cycles of testing and modification.

What usually happens, is that some other group takes control of this idea (they can tell it as a good idea) and uses it for purposes, it was not intended for at all. (Usually to make a fast buck.)

Then everyone wonders what went wrong.