One of the soft skill tricks is building new allies out of subordinates. Almost nobody gets promoted to a level of influence until they’re a bus number in somet

One of the soft skill tricks is building new allies out of subordinates. Almost nobody gets promoted to a level of influence until they’re a bus number in something important. And that often requires waiting for the project scope to grow enough horizontally for new domains to open up, or for someone senior to pass the torch. If management is doing their jobs in growing the team then this all works out. But if they’re letting those with tenure get first pick of new problems, then you can play the game, carving out your share of the spoils, and then offloading other things before your head explodes. Every thing you offload is a ladder rung for someone else. That way you end up with code that is no longer your baby but still not on the trash heap.