[twelve40]

It can mean different things, no? For example, a team was switching to git from a different vcs. Devs who actually gave a crap then researched best practices and wrote up an internal how-to for everyone else to follow. Not because they were "business owners" or told by the management, but just because they knew there would be total chaos if they didn't. Other people - who somewhat cared - followed the internal manual. Finally, people who should be fired started shitting right into master without reading anything on git, internal or otherwise. In my mind, the first set of devs really acted like owners here. Nobody exploited them, or even pushed them to overwork, they just knew to do the right thing.

[echaozh]

Yeah, they're not "business owners", they're just fake owners who will be fired when writing the internal how-to took too much of their work time.