Architecture & practice·Teams, ownership and Conway's law
the alert fired and it took forty minutes to establish which team was supposed to answer it.
Orphaned service
Also calledunowned service
A running system with no team accountable for it, usually left behind by a reorganisation or a departure. It is a compounding risk: it gets no upgrades, no security patches and no context, and the first person to touch it inherits it by accident. The cheap prevention is a service catalogue with a named owning team and a rule that anything unowned is a candidate for deletion.