Mullenweg Creates a Tiger Team to Overhaul Wordpress.org

Matt Mullenweg Assembles Trusted Group to Overhaul WordPress.org and Five for the Future

Changes have been rolling out across WordPress.org after Matt Mullenweg recently created a new channel on WordPress Slack, giving a small group of trusted contributors the authority to overhaul the site without approval from any team, committee, or stakeholder other than himself.

Interesting that just 12 people have been granted access. We used this same "Tiger Team" approach at Disney when we migrated Hulu into the Disney platform. Small teams with broad authority can move much faster. It's a good call, but it's a Band-Aid. Once the overhaul is complete, and the team is disbanded, who will keep the site from rotting again?