At my previous employer, we ended up handing over our versioning to the marketing/business teams and our development teams started using a semver-style internal

At my previous employer, we ended up handing over our versioning to the marketing/business teams and our development teams started using a semver-style internally recognized release number for tracking features and fixes. Too often our customers would demand a new feature/driver/interface in a .PATCH or .MINOR release in order to more quickly adopt the software without having to run through their internal qualifications and upgrade policies.