Beatles/music analogy rather backfires, no-one remembers Paul McCartney albums or Freddie Mercury solo projects. I could spend years listing bands that have sp

Beatles/music analogy rather backfires, no-one remembers Paul McCartney albums or Freddie Mercury solo projects. I could spend years listing bands that have split up, the lead singer or guitarist tries to go solo, utterly fails, band goes for reunion tour 10 years later. It's a known band cliché. A large software project is a lot of hard work of basically a bunch of people trying to write a story together. It's different to sport. One asshole pulling in a completely different direction is enough to drag everyone down.