Great piece! most managers hoard decision making without realizing it.. Hard realisation that giving someone a microservice to own with actual authority to fix tech debt is way different than asking them to maintain it when you tell them to.
In my experience it was more organic, not always having a new owner for that kingdom. Also depends a lot on the person who owned it - in what state the left it :)
In general, I try hard to have at least 2 people knowledgeable in each area, to have some redundancy (and the 2nd one will be probably responsible for getting all the ‘in their head only’ info from the first one)
“A kingdom per engineer”, simple but brilliant framework.
Great piece! most managers hoard decision making without realizing it.. Hard realisation that giving someone a microservice to own with actual authority to fix tech debt is way different than asking them to maintain it when you tell them to.
Nice. Giving ownership is giving growth opportunities and sense of achievement!
And thanks for the shoutout :)
In my experience it was more organic, not always having a new owner for that kingdom. Also depends a lot on the person who owned it - in what state the left it :)
In general, I try hard to have at least 2 people knowledgeable in each area, to have some redundancy (and the 2nd one will be probably responsible for getting all the ‘in their head only’ info from the first one)