employee turnover is why enterprises rarely build any useful software and have to buy startups to more forward projects or operations with fragmented continuit

employee turnover is why enterprises rarely build any useful software and have to buy startups to more forward projects or operations with fragmented continuity because of turnover contribute near zero additional value and existing value decays quickly over time - each time a role is replaced more knowledge is lost - to the point the project is permanently on life support paying people more and more to stay isn't enough - you also have to remove all the oxygen stealing layers of bureaucracy to create a bearable working environment - but that isn't usually possible in an enterprise as everyone senior tries to avoid being responsible for anything which almost always leads to more management and compliance layers until someone soils the bed over cost I take my hat off to Microsoft over the last couple of years - what those guys (Scott Guthrie?) have done with .NET, SQL etc. appears, from the outside, to have reversed that trend