This is a place to link to pages that don't necessarily describe design patterns, but rather describe aspects of a business or a society that affect how things are designed or how designs get implemented.
For example, StrategicPlanning, a company's MissionStatement
Given that they are not on plane [spaceship, surely?] looking down but just giving their opinons on the subject, how is this different from WishfulThinking?
From there the view is of the forest, not the trees. While you may be able to see the Beginning and the End, invisible will be the stuff, people, and tasks involved in the progression from end to end. Viewers from this altitude seem to be given to YogiBerra type statements similar to: "We've got a lot to do before we get done, so let's do it." --DonaldNoyes