DevOps and anarchism

Browsing over my timeline, I got triggered to the following statement:

For our first hypothesis, we discovered that teams that can decide which tools they use do better at continuous delivery. This is in contrast to teams that can use only those tools that are mandated by a central group. Teams that can choose their own tools are able to make these choices based on how they work, and the tasks they need to perform. No one knows better than practitioners what they need to be effective, so it's not surprising that practitioner tool choice helps to drive better outcomes.

This comes out of the State of DevOps report 2017. And this to me raises a lot of questions, because I do believe in empowerment of teams. But as a fan of the philosopher Levinas, I would like to state that there is an end to my freedom, and that is usually the beginning of  the freedom for the other starts.

So here are a couple of questions I have:

• What is doing better at continuous delivery?
• And I thought the goal of the movement is to deliver business value, so do the teams that can decide their own tools deliver more business value?
• Have we excluded other factors like market dynamics etc, in this conclusion?

Because based on this statement we could state that a writer, a poet like Goethe who accepts the fact that he is bound to certain rules is less successful than the dada poet Van Doesburg, who empowered himself not to follow rules. Of course, you could argue success, but I think more people know Goethe than people know Van Doesburg.

So my assumption is that this statement needs more detailed investigation, before I would break all the rules and give freedom to all.

What are your thoughts on this one?