Agile development, code first, top down by ex fast food chefs with a Prince qualification, and BA's straight out of the typing pool.
They don't even bother to disguise the job creation, the user story is about as blatant as it gets.
"The user says he wants a system to fix his problems. There! We've spent 90% of the budget and done all the hard work, the coding should now be easy."
Oh how I long for the days of yore when software was made by people who knew what they were doing.