[sombremesa]

Well said. I think this is what the author of the OP was also getting at - it's better to grow the culture (while sharing responsibility) where it belongs rather than purchasing it wholesale and shoving it down dev throats.

As an employee of a large software focused corporation that does many of these things right, I had no idea how bad things can get for smaller, newer companies that haven't figured all of this out.

[alxndr]

Even small companies can have momentum and unanalyzed patterns that are hard to change.