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Discussion on: 12 Reasons To Avoid Individual Code Ownership

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Serban Balamaci • Edited

Yes this article seems to paint a fantasy world. In the real world I rather imagine managers like this approach because they can force a poor guy carry the whole team by having him firefight areas other make a mess of. And the managers not have own up to their hiring mistakes or decisions or deal with the actual problem of low quality devs which may be forced on them by upper management which doesn't want to hear about paying better salaries and not hire the first guy that comes to an interview. So this way of working with everyone owning the problems(and the manager getting the credit) is a great way of sweeping the problems under the rug and not making "waves" which is what most management wants.