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by steveBK123 1338 days ago
The SPOF fallacy is always managements favorite way to waste money. My current shop we had a system maintained by 1 guy, as like 10-20% of his job/time. I can guarantee you he is not paid even $500K.

This of course was deemed bad & risky, so we must engage a set of vendors to deliver a replacement. 2 years, a dozen subcontractors, and 7-figure annual bill later.. and they still haven't replaced 10-20% of this SPOF. Literally spent $5M so far against max $100k of this guys salary. There are still no signs that SPOF can give up the responsibility even next year.

No one has been fired over this. In fact the decider has been promoted.