An individual makes the case for a product (horse). It is introduced to few people who realize its potential. The stakeholders engage and define a process and committee (one representative from each stakeholder), with no one in lead. The committee develops a camel (the individual has probably moved on).
Per Wikipedia "Design by committee is a term referring to a style of design and its resultant output when a group of entities comes together to produce something (often the design of technological systems or standards), particularly in the presence of poor leadership. The defining characteristics of "design by committee" are needless complexity, internal inconsistency, logical flaws, banality, and the lack of a unifying vision."
An approach that produces something closer to a horse
- Let the product germinate and bloom with the individual
- Let the shoot emerge and support the individual with a small set of people who collaborate
- Incrementally let the product grow the realties of the world and support it with more people
- Keep the individual at the core maintaining the vision
- Keep the committee far away
