This phenomenon is more interesting to watch in a big IT department. Where various leaders try to get allocated more people, or slide in new management layers.

This phenomenon is more interesting to watch in a big IT department. Where various leaders try to get allocated more people, or slide in new management layers. I suppose the tendency to empire build is baked into us. I'm also surprised at how little uniformity there is across companies. You would imagine sizes of teams would follow some ratio related to revenue, or percentage of all IT, etc. They don't. So the size of the IT Security Team, or Change Management, etc, vary wildly. Even for similar companies in the same industry.