I'm curious if you folks have similar practices, like that of what we do at work? Do you adjust your oven temperature depending on how long the bread has been in the oven?? Having virtually no experience baking bread in a home kitchen, I have no idea if what we do is a normal practice. Some, but not all, varieties of bread we produce will bake at varying temperatures. This would be a difference of anywhere between 5 and 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Here is my understanding of the principal...
The 1st Third of the baking time: tweaked to impact loaf height/"jump" in the oven. Tweaking the temp lower by 5-15 degrees will make a taller loaf; an increase of that much will help "lock-in" the height of a loaf that may be tall enough already.

The middle Third: is for "doneness". The primary focus here is getting the core temp above food-safe. If the temps vary throughout the bake time, this portion will be as high, or higher* than the other two thirds.
*= A couple of oddballs are of a single temp, until the last third where it is 5 degrees higher.

Final Third: mostly impacts color of the finished product. Obviously, a higher temp makes a darker loaf.

Does that "Bread Maker's Apprentice" discuss this?

Sorry, I'm babbling again lol.