Related to what I talked about in Ask HN. How bad should the code be in a startup.: a story about people only superficially understanding stuff:

There was just one problem. The process that DOD2167 adopted was Royce’s straw man! Apparently the authors of DOD2167 did not actually read Royce’s paper; because they adopted the “grandiose”, naïve process that Royce’s paper had derided. To his great chagrin, Dr. Winston W. Royce became known as the father of the waterfall.