I think the author was just plain wrong in his decision assigning that transition task to that developer: """ They were just in the middle of a transition f

I think the author was just plain wrong in his decision assigning that transition task to that developer: """ They were just in the middle of a transition from a homebrewed framework into a popular open-source one, which I was intimately familiar with. The author should have been transitioning the application to the new PHP framework himself. He is intimately familiar with it (and only it?), after all. And that other guy probably should have been assigned some other task, that he could be efficient at. Or let go. Instead, it looks like this other guy was assigned a task in which he would be very inefficient, and then micromanaged by newly hired CTO. So no surprise that it ended in that huge time waste.