Does whatever you propose to replace corporate Agile give upper management fine-grained observability and control of the SDLC? No? Then it won't get adopted, es

Does whatever you propose to replace corporate Agile give upper management fine-grained observability and control of the SDLC? No? Then it won't get adopted, especially not by large organizations. Period. It's not the 80s or 90s anymore, programmers don't get to build little fiefdoms of accountability strictly on their own terms anymore. The C suite knows that those fiefdoms are Dennis Nedry situations just waiting to happen. Software development is accountable to the business. The business has a right to track how much value developers are delivering, and to change things if it's not enough.