Empowerment provides your team the power to choose how to do their tasks given the boundaries of what to do. This independence allows some creativity to flow and will work positively in all standard operating conditions.
Most of the time, product development processes are associated with commonly known standards, guidelines or methodologies such as � SEI CMMi, ISO, Agile, Scrum, etc� or with governance/management mechanisms such as � Stage Gate, Prince-2, PMP, etc�