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> If you say yes to every idea anyone brings by, you'll end up with The Homer[1].

Judging by the description of it/the episode (https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/The_Homer), it seems to convey the opposite message? It was one person's (Homer's) vision, no input from others?




I'm not making a comparison with the process, but the outcome.

Although I guess Homer Simpson could be argued to have had many ideas about what should be included in the car, although he didn't really have a vision for the car. So in that sense, it's still a reasonable parallel for the development methodology.


Homer is a satire of the American everyman and his supposed incoherent desire for everything at once. In that sense, a car designed by Homer is a car designed by a committee of yes-men.




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