Regarding heavyweight methodologies and supporting tools that produce thick piles of "documentation:"
See MartinFowler's DistributedComputing article entitled "The Almighty Thud" (November/December 1997):
http://martinfowler.com/distributedComputing/thud.html
[Thanks to ThomasPatzke for the reference.] [It moved. --DanUznanski]
(This page referenced in discussion in TooMuchDocumentation.)
Very related to the ThunkFactor
- And THUD documentation can produce...
- BigThudCodeCausedByBigThudMethodologies.
This article reminds me of PerfectionIsAchieved.