Individual Contributor

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

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Pronunciation

/ˌɪndəˈvɪʤəwəl kənˈtrɪbjətər/

Is owned by an individual contributor on the project team
Frankly, it suggests to me that too many organisations are rather naive about the ingredients of leadership and make the classic mistake of assuming that someone who is an outstanding individual contributor would therefore be an outstanding leader.
It limits the ability to manage the organization at the program level as data doesn't flow smoothly up from the individual contributor level.
An architect may need to review sets of changes from an individual contributor before introducing them into the master model.
The position he was being offered, however, was a high-level, individual contributor one that essentially repeated a role that he had already done extensively before.

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