[coldtea]

>That's what I meant about it not being practical. Who would invest that amount of money?

Tons of organizations and governments could.

20 10 person teams * 5 methodologies = 1000 people, for a 1 month project = 1000 * $100.000 = 100M dollars.

In the grand scheme of things this is insignificant amount -- in a world where businesses spend $15 billion for buying Instragram. A military could do that kind of spending for buying a single airplane -- and such a research could potentially have a huge impact / savings on future soft-eng projects.

And it could be even subsidized or be tax-deductible. Or could easily drop to like $70K or $50K per month compensation.