"There are four key values for Humane Development. They’re empathy, honesty, trust, and autonomy... Developers, they may feel, especially the autonomy piece, they don’t have a lot of control over in their current job. What can they do? Really, only the last one of those four values, the autonomy piece, requires manager buy-in, and even then not a ton."

While this sounds nice in theory, many developers just don't have enough power in their workplace environment to really put these values into practice by themselves. They really do need buy-in and support not only from their managers, but from their coworkers as well. (How many of us have worked with the "cowboy" on the team, who looks like a hero to management while creating problem after problem for his coworkers? Or the product designer who doesn't want to let anyone else have input?)