I don't think it bears much resemblance to political anarchy. "Developer anarchy" has a very different character. When you gather together a group of random p

I don't think it bears much resemblance to political anarchy. "Developer anarchy" has a very different character. When you gather together a group of random people and call it a 'society', the outcome is very unpredictable. When you gather together a group of people whose pre-declared passion is creating neat software, the outcome is far less unpredictable. This sort of 'anarchy' should better be referred to as 'trust software developers to know how to develop software'. Most organizations are orgies of people with severe control fetishes, and they've convinced themselves that nothing beneficial to the company can be done without their interference. Perhaps they're wrong. Perhaps software engineers like to work on good software, and will therefore produce good software when not forced to jump through ridiculous hoops and fall to every new management fad? I know that when I am free to do whatever I wish, I try to create software I can be proud of. When involved in an organizations process, I am usually just trying to fix something so it's not broken, and there's not even an opportunity to propose building a better alternative, even if it would have significant business benefits. The software engineering industry seems to be obsessed with the idea that everyone except software engineers knows best how and what should be built.