That's cute.
Too bad when the project timeline doesn't fit, the teams themselves don't fit, etc. etc. Yeah, team members can decide all they want when they don't have any resources to work with, because the primary strategic decisions didn't account for the workflows people had in mind. And yes, I've seen that happen to otherwise great managers (who took the blame and readily admitted their lack of experience with the (then) new techniques and accommodate planning accordingly - but by then it was rather late in the project...).
Of course, those cases are getting rare, but remember, we're talking about the statement "I think the fundamental principles of software engineering haven't changed a whole lot since [the 80's]".
Of course, those cases are getting rare, but remember, we're talking about the statement "I think the fundamental principles of software engineering haven't changed a whole lot since [the 80's]".