[klenwell]

I've seen 50-page project specs written before the dev team even new there was a new project. But PMO board. Ouch.

At the other extreme, you have your process-adverse adhocracy where your brilliant new lead developer unilaterally decides the first step in fixing the latest issue with your existing CRUD application written in PHP is to write a new Node framework.

Meanwhile, junior developers are getting bombarded directly by anyone in the organization who encounters a problem while using their keyboard.

Companies like this exist. Maybe not quite this extreme. But I've encountered a few variations on this theme and they've given me a deeper appreciation for agile concepts and terminology.