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by SlavikCA 800 days ago
Ownership becomes mushy word, when you get to own duty and lack the power to make decisions.

Manager: you need to take ownership, meaning that you figure out requirements (and get the blame when requirements changes), you make the product and project decision (and get the blame, when for outcomes), you find all the people needed to figure out deploy details and no, you can't make decision about what we're using in production.

Employee: I'm better figure out how to cover my butt...