A colleague of mine changed job recently. He was tech lead and had been working on the project for years and we other were quite new. It was obvious things woul

A colleague of mine changed job recently. He was tech lead and had been working on the project for years and we other were quite new. It was obvious things would get harder from now on so half of us bailed, i.e. the three programmers with more then 6 month on the project, and the project collapsed. I mean with enough skill and money the experienced of us and he was replaceable. But not at the current budget. Maybe not even on twice the budget. 'Irreplaceable' is ofent with an implied 'at reasonable cost in a reasonable time'.