> Software engineers, like all humans, need to feel ownership I've always found this to be very true personally. Unfortunately fear often directly opposes it,

> Software engineers, like all humans, need to feel ownership I've always found this to be very true personally. Unfortunately fear often directly opposes it, i.e concepts like "what if that guy gets hit by a bus" which are valid but sometimes taken too far to the point of attempting to make everyone easily "replaceable"... i've a saying to warn of this that has helped me alleviate such fears in others so far: If you make your entire developer team replaceable, they will create code and products that are equally replaceable and hold no value. People are the company, they need to be valued as such.