I lead a team of 7 developers at a ~200 person company. I’ve had several people on other teams ask if they could work on items from our backlog and one eventual

I lead a team of 7 developers at a ~200 person company. I’ve had several people on other teams ask if they could work on items from our backlog and one eventually transferred to our team full time. I’ve also had my own directs tell me when they’d rather be working on another team. I’ve always honored these requests and I do everything I can to help them transition. Early in my career I worked at Microsoft on a product I really wasn’t excited about. I was honest about this with my manager and he introduced me to friends in other orgs which eventually lead to me transferring to one of their teams. To this day I’m grateful for the generosity and want to have the same impact wherever I can. It’s better for everyone if our primary goal is to make each other happy rather than extract as much “value” as possible from someone for our own benefit.