Yes. As more management layers/people are added, people are all wanting to be "more professional", and seeing "oh, we did formal written RCAs on production events at my last company, we need to do that here".
I did a 6 month gig at a company a few years ago. Team of... 6-8, with a dedicated PM and a good team lead. Company was around ... 80 or so at the time, and there were a couple other 'dev' teams (I think around 35-40 'dev' folks at all - it was growing so hard to pinpoint numbers).
I saw some of these types of processes there - I didn't always agree with 100% of everything done, but there was a team. 1 lead, one PO/PM, and... 5-6 devs and a couple testers - a self-contained unit. It worked pretty well, all things considered.
I'm currently in a situation where it's completely backwards, but they're trying to implement all the 'correct' and 'professional' techniques. Oh, and I'm part time - ~20 hrs per week. Pretty much everyone is part time, either overall, or part time on this project, and... the wrongness of trying to bring in techniques built for full time larger teams seems to be lost on everyone but me.
I did a 6 month gig at a company a few years ago. Team of... 6-8, with a dedicated PM and a good team lead. Company was around ... 80 or so at the time, and there were a couple other 'dev' teams (I think around 35-40 'dev' folks at all - it was growing so hard to pinpoint numbers).
I saw some of these types of processes there - I didn't always agree with 100% of everything done, but there was a team. 1 lead, one PO/PM, and... 5-6 devs and a couple testers - a self-contained unit. It worked pretty well, all things considered.
I'm currently in a situation where it's completely backwards, but they're trying to implement all the 'correct' and 'professional' techniques. Oh, and I'm part time - ~20 hrs per week. Pretty much everyone is part time, either overall, or part time on this project, and... the wrongness of trying to bring in techniques built for full time larger teams seems to be lost on everyone but me.