Craftsmanship (and its derivatives) is a long talked about topic. I agree that it would be a great idea (or at least a great experiment). What we did in the co

Craftsmanship (and its derivatives) is a long talked about topic. I agree that it would be a great idea (or at least a great experiment). What we did in the company I work for is create profession-based company-wide guilds. These guilds (that's what we call them too) back their members professionally and make sure their professional progress is not stagnant (among recruitment and consulting). In addition, the guilds keep the LOBs in check. A guild member can "snitch" about a bad practice that their boss is forcing them to do (skip tests in order to hasten the dev process for example). A guild master or the guild leader will then meet with the project leader and hold them in check. Hopefully this can be cross-company but until then we can do it inside each (medium and up) company.