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## Code Ownership: Keeping the balance between structure and agility

DevFeed: [Code Ownership: Keeping the balance between structure and agility](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/code-ownership-keeping-the-balance-between-structure-and-agility-39880.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/code-ownership/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2022-02-12T12:53:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modules.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structure.md>), [code reviews](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-reviews.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [code-reviews](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-reviews.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modules.md>), [ownership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ownership.md>), [practices-software-development-technical-leadership-organizational-design-software-craft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/practices-software-development-technical-leadership-organizational-design-software-craft.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/structure.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>)

### AI overview

The article explains strong, weak, and collective code ownership. It argues that team ownership reduces dependence on individual developers, while knowledge sharing through collaborative editing and code reviews helps teams maintain responsibility for modules. It also notes that collective ownership becomes harder to sustain as systems and teams grow.

### Source excerpt

Code Ownership: Keeping the balance between structure and agility Code ownership is an important topic when it comes to enabling your teams and allowing developers to improve the system while keeping the overhead of changes low.