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Re:Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts by sejtnjir on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:11PM (#29628770)
I have the opposite experience. When people typically stick around for the majority of their career, there's no incentive to capture knowledge thoroughly. Onboarding time was noticeably longer because of it.
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Re:Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts by lostapathy on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:41PM (#29629170)
The ideal is almost certainly somewhere in the middle.

The people who have only been on the job a couple months are probably not truly onboarded themselves, hard for them to document what they don’t know.

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Re:Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts by datavirtue on Monday December 20, 2021 @02:54PM (#29629349)
And everyone new has to run to the lifers...which means that the new people never learn deeply...and always have to run back to the lifer.

It takes a loooong time to learn a system when you have this dynamic.

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