My experience is that extensive procedure comes because the small company start up approach doesn't scale to large companies. Every one I have worked at that has transitioned from from 10s to 1000s of people was failing because it tried to continue as if it was 10 wizards at it. The wizardy actually hindered others because it was opaque to them.
Interestingly the biggest company I worked for actually ran the best because perhaps its roots being 80+ years before any of the others would allow the significant difference to be tracked.
Interestingly the biggest company I worked for actually ran the best because perhaps its roots being 80+ years before any of the others would allow the significant difference to be tracked.