All big methodologies and big application platforms (e.g. J2/Jakarta EE,.NET) are attempts to make average developers predictably productive and to ensure long-term consistency in and across large projects. These things are more important to "enterprise" than raw productivity/development speed.
Highly talented developers don't need this structure and process, but if given the freedom, they are also more likely to create software that only they understand, using flavor-of-the-month languages or frameworks that they have personally selected. When their work is done and they move on, nobody else can figure out what they have done or why.
Highly talented developers don't need this structure and process, but if given the freedom, they are also more likely to create software that only they understand, using flavor-of-the-month languages or frameworks that they have personally selected. When their work is done and they move on, nobody else can figure out what they have done or why.