Where is the Henry Ford of IT?

I can only imagine that Henry Ford was an amazing man. His invention of the production line is probably the greatest commercial achievement of the 20th Century. Here's my question for today - Does IT need its own Henry Ford?

If we compare the production line analagy to IT development we will traditionally end up with something based upon the SDLC (System Development Lifecycle). That's fine as far as it goes but as always the devil is in the detail. In all my 20 years industry experience I've never been able to use the same development process unchanged between sites. Think about that for a moment. Every IT Development Team has had different processes, standards, tollgates, etc. but we're all effectively doing the same thing. I should be able to move from one job to another and technology aside be instantly productive. However, as a new developer to a site we spend longer dancing our way through the process minefield than we ever do in writing code. Something just isn't right there.