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This management practice called “programmers anarchy”. It worked very well in my professional life too.

It's not really "anarchy".

Setting goals and delegating responsibility is how things are supposed to be led.

Substituting that with project management is a pathology.

Third this. Process doesn't really matter. Just hire good programmers and let them program.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools?

You mean Jira right