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> new talent also bring in new ideas and combat skeptical dispositions and organizational ossification

Ossification happens when most of the employees stay in the same company and even the same team for 20 or 30 years.

The industry is facing the opposite problem, where the average tour of duty is so short that people don't care about planning for the future or designing lasting, low-maintenance software. Endless, unnecessary churn is not cheap.



I find its the people most invested - the business owners who don’t care about future planning or low maintenance software. Or more accurately they don’t understand it, they do the equivalent of the false economy of buying cheap and paying twice. Normally excused by “well we are growing fast”


Ossification doesn't have to happen though. Continuing education and some time to "practice" and try new things on a smaller scale can do wonders.




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