Well. Yes, I agree that is a "duh, really?!" However, in my experience, the IT industry is overflowing with pointless process meetings initiated by middle mana

Well. Yes, I agree that is a "duh, really?!" However, in my experience, the IT industry is overflowing with pointless process meetings initiated by middle management. My point was more to give a concrete example on how some (dev driven) initiative can give productive results which was sort of in line with the OP article.