Names show up and the context in which they show up tends to provide a very different map of the organization than the one in the org chart.
— Andrew Bosworth on the Career Cold Start Algorithm
In my time as a Project Manager, I’ve been thrown into deep ends of projects with substantial legacies. It was never easy trying to understand the background of a project just by reading the company knowledge base or wiki.
I’ve come to realise that no matter how much is documented, people are always the answer.
It’s been 2 years down the road and this article is still very much relevant.