All too true. I'm just fascinated by the interrelationships between technical practices. The way that a "good" practice can become "bad" (and vice versa) depen

All too true. I'm just fascinated by the interrelationships between technical practices. The way that a "good" practice can become "bad" (and vice versa) depending on the working context can be very hard to figure out. Testing would be another one that would come into play here (and I guess that it's interesting that it didn't even occur to me to mention it since having a good automated test suite is so much of the way that I work now). Without a good test suite having collective code ownership becomes much harder because making some dumb mistake that breaks something unintentionally becomes much harder to spot.