> The original authors are already part of another team (because “breaking silos”, but actually because “make everyone replaceable”)
I've been there and i've inherited some stuff to manage, and it's painful.
But there's another side of this, which is even more painful and definitely infuriating: some people get to stay on the same project for years, and they become "key people" just because they've either A) stumbled on the issues before or B) have introduced the issues themselves.
This is completely infuriating because now you have to play cat and mouse with these people to get help, and they get to play the "super busy, everybody ask me stuff" role because they're the only people with that historic knowledge.
Needless to say, they can also back the claim they deserve a promotion (and a salary increase) by executing on.this playbook. And they usually do.
I've seen this thing happen in pretty much all company sizes (200 people, 1000 people, 500k+ people).
At this point, after almost ten years in the industry, I'm starting to think this is the winning playbook for the meta-game: go rogue in a maliciously-compliant way, artificially claim superiority over your peers, get promoted.
I've been there and i've inherited some stuff to manage, and it's painful.
But there's another side of this, which is even more painful and definitely infuriating: some people get to stay on the same project for years, and they become "key people" just because they've either A) stumbled on the issues before or B) have introduced the issues themselves.
This is completely infuriating because now you have to play cat and mouse with these people to get help, and they get to play the "super busy, everybody ask me stuff" role because they're the only people with that historic knowledge.
Needless to say, they can also back the claim they deserve a promotion (and a salary increase) by executing on.this playbook. And they usually do.
I've seen this thing happen in pretty much all company sizes (200 people, 1000 people, 500k+ people).
At this point, after almost ten years in the industry, I'm starting to think this is the winning playbook for the meta-game: go rogue in a maliciously-compliant way, artificially claim superiority over your peers, get promoted.