Yeah I have seen this successfully done at a smallish (200 person) company. There was a "platform" team which was essentially an "un-suck the monolith team". R

Yeah I have seen this successfully done at a smallish (200 person) company. There was a "platform" team which was essentially an "un-suck the monolith team". Refactor slowly over time, turn a ball of mud into cleanly defined domain boundaries, parallelize the tests, etc. etc.