That's how I hire and run software development projects. I hire with this management style in mind. Hiring people who can't work this way raises the risk that p

That's how I hire and run software development projects. I hire with this management style in mind. Hiring people who can't work this way raises the risk that person will not work out for other reasons. There are big companies throughout tech that over-control their developers and other key workers. I don't know how they arrived at the theory that they can get more work, more reliably, out of coders by "managing" them with over-formalized project management styles. There is some aspects of process, like creating adequate test code and root cause analysis, that needs to be formalized. But apart from the it makes no sense for coders in a first tier tech company to be managed by bureaucratic methods like SAFe. I recently recruited a very high achieving engineer out of an organization that I would not have thought would be so bureaucratic.