[xyse53]

I just did this at a fairly large company and it feels good... after almost a year of stress.

What worked for me was to point out the issue early, and keep pointing it out to the high level leads that could do something about it.

At the same time with my own smaller group just buckled down and delivered more, high visibility work.

When the complaints started coming in about the other groups I pointed out we could do more with a consolidated team and that design overhead was to blame for most of our problems.

In the end, there were a couple of folks who didn't make out well here and I feel bad about that. But the overall tone from various stakeholders seems to be a huge sigh of relief.