An engineer, a manager and a programmer are driving down a steep mountain road. The brakes fail and the car careens down the road out of control. Halfway down, the driver manages to stop the car by running it against the embankment, narrowly avoiding a cliff. They all get out, shaken by their close escape from death, but otherwise unharmed.
The manager says, 'To fix this problem we need to organise a committee, have meetings and through a process of continuous improvement, develop a solution.'
The engineer says, 'No that would take too long and besides that method has never worked before. I have my trusty pen-knife here and I will take apart the brake system, isolate the problem and correct it.'
The programmer says, 'I think I you're both wrong. I think we should all push the car back up the hill and see if it happens again.'