[lliamander]

In my experience, every successful engineering process is driven by the engineers. Not product owners, project managers, IT directors, VPs of Engineering, or CTOs.

It's certainly reasonable for those various stakeholders to ask for visibility. Demos are great for that, and a lead engineer or front-line engineering manager can work with stakeholders to establish some metrics to report on, but those are epiphenomenal to the process chosen.

I'm not saying it's a guarantee, just that nothing else really works well.