Thanks for the comments. The companies have been distributed across the country (with a few outside of the US as well). They have been of different shapes and s

Thanks for the comments. The companies have been distributed across the country (with a few outside of the US as well). They have been of different shapes and sizes, but I did not do a good job tracking all of their characteristics. The purpose of the calls was to discuss Aha! -- not different engineering methodologies. A few trends jumped out at me and this was one of them, so I decided to write about it and try to be fair that the ideas are based on qualitative research (discussions). I appreciate your thoughts and the idea that engineers should own large components of a project or entire projects resonates with us. We think it creates real pride of ownership and interest in customer success and it has been how we have organized our engineering teams at three different companies now. It's clearly better for individuals (as you mentioned) and the companies they work for.