What does it mean to have ownership of a software service?
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What does it mean to have ownership of a software service?
NoΔnica Fee -
Jaden Concord -
Ben Halpern -
michelledev -
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π€ I feel like I own services at work, but I'm not sure I've thought about what it means explicitly. "I know it when I see it." In practice, I think there are things that make me feel like I own the service:
It's with a degree of guilt that I recognize some of these as antipatterns. Reviewing everything can just be gatekeeping. Being the source of answers can just be bus factor. Being the primary developer could just mean I'm a lone wolf in a silo. Knowing everything can just lead to unspoken institutional knowledge. While my sense of ownership comes from being a control freak, "real" ownership bears some social responsibility:
Maybe this is more a list of symptoms of ownership than what ownership means, but it's the shape of what I think about when I say I "own" a system.
Whatever @molly_struve tells me it means π€£