[wastedhours]

> it segregated a team of developers off to work on 'cool' things while the other half is left working on legacy projects

Ouch. Everything I've read about re-orgs is usually centred on not letting that happen. We went through one last year and any remotely interesting tasks absorbed by teams were shared around (along with the not so interesting tasks of the people who were bumped).

We were luck we had quite an inclusive consultation process and the radical transparency had both negative as well as positive effects, but can imagine something like that being somewhat hidden would just kill morale.