Did they also only succeed in raining shit upon the landscape as well?
I'm not going to say too much about this place yet, for it is early days. Even the shiniest ball can be made of the stinkiest poop.
"Stop ship meetings" "Task Force Meetings" And anything else possible to hinder finding the right solution. Yes, in essence a total shit storm.
Oh yes smells familiar. The favourite one for me, experienced recently, is
"crap slinging monkey face saving meeting" where they just get everyone loosely associated around a table and insert a random PM who is already considering jumping off the office already and has to try and shave off more days from the deadline that just sailed past at a significant fraction of
c. No one will budge because of the layers of organisational and technical debt have built up through mismanagement for years, no one wants to pay that debt off because it means admitting it to their seniors and everyone is so risk averse because the people who were decent pissed off leaving anyone who remains with no knowledge of how anything actually works. That is other than a confluence instance populated entirely by demotivated and damaged leavers. Eventually a developer comes up with a unicorn solution which means applying more sticky tape and string and everyone hinges their hope upon that. Rinse. Repeat.