Define: "Throw it over the wall" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Let the servers crash. If you fix their undocumented garbage code for them on a Friday night, you own it forever."
The transfer of a completed phase of work to another department with little to no communication or collaboration.
What does "Throw it over the wall" actually mean?
"Developers pushing untested, garbage code to production at 4:55 PM on a Friday and immediately logging off for the weekend."
"We need to improve cross-functional collaboration and avoid teams simply throwing projects over the wall."
"Instead of testing the API integration, the dev team just threw it over the wall to operations and let the servers crash."
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