thorsten 9:42 AM
Just had a (great) conversation about ownership and engineering here and I realized that I often use the phrase "ownership" or allude to it, but haven't explained what "ownership" means to me in a while.
So, ownership. If I ask you "can you own this?" or "can you take care of this?" or "are you on it?" — I'm asking you to own it, to own the solution of a problem from end to end. From "we have a problem" to "we don't have to think about it again."
That means, when you say that you're owning something, the expectation is that you
- Think about what the problem actually is. Maybe you already have a solution in mind, without having thought about what we're actually trying to solve here. Maybe you think "the problem is that we need to migrate from using X to using Y", but that's not a problem, that's a solution. The problem is likely something like "performance is bad", "it's not stable", "it fails for customer x". Maybe there's other possible solutions to that? Think about those. What are