When you are your own boss, things like responsibilities and project ownership are pretty obvious – you are liable for everything, period. However when working at an agency with projects coming and going, and sometimes resurfacing after even years of dormant life things get a bit more complicated.
At some point we tried to introduce project ownership. This unfortunately gets a bit problematic when you hit the projects that no one has any clue about and the original developer has left ages ago (or it can even be unclear who the original developer was!). It does mean that someone eventually will know something about the orphaned projects once they take responsibility for them. Though again in case that person moves on, the situation will start over.
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