[sprafa]

Software engineering seems partially creative partially technical - so on the creative parts, yes absolutely teams should self define their preferences. Scrum vs agile vs whatever else IMO should be a team/org preference. However like someone else said some engineering has to be liable for criminal prosecution in some cases. So you need some practices to be enforced.

[julianlam]

Sure, so who defines which parts are highly technical? We can all be in agreement that things like cryptography should use well known and vetted libraries, whereas something like a REST API interface can be a little more relaxed with adherence to a standard, but where do we draw the line?

I do not want to live in a world where my code must conform to a Java Bean factory class. I align more with the skunkworks style of development.

I once work on contract on a project where everything was abstracted to hell and back. We spent 90% of our time trying to figure out where references pointed to in the code. Never again.

[sprafa]

It’s a difficult question and I’m not qualified to answer it as an amateur tbh.