In my company we have the best of both worlds - things are slow as hell and there's shitload of tech debt. This is direct result of "collaboration" aka "nobody actually owns anything". I put forward a proposal to standardize various things across our software, and in response my manager called a meeting of 10 people. No proposal can survive a meeting of 10 people at once.
IMO the best way is to split your organization into units that nicely map with technological/business boundaries, and then give each unit the responsibility to own something tanglible. The problem is, if the organization is full of idiots, everyone tries to do the opposite, in order to diffuse the responsibility.
IMO the best way is to split your organization into units that nicely map with technological/business boundaries, and then give each unit the responsibility to own something tanglible. The problem is, if the organization is full of idiots, everyone tries to do the opposite, in order to diffuse the responsibility.