Jeff Moden (12/31/2012)
The fly in the ointment, of course, will be the non-unique leaf levels.
Indeed there are
->-> VP Dev Dept
->->-> Team Lead Team1
->->->-> Senior Dev
->->-> Team Lead Team2
->->->-> Senior Dev
So the rhetorical question is, how do we tell that "Senior Dev" reports to "Team Lead Team 1" or "Team Lead Team 2" or 3,4,5 etc ?
Answer is we cant.
A parent/child hierarchy is the simplest way to introduce this relationship , and will be extensible once teams 4,5,6 are created and when cleaners and tea makers are also introduced into the mix 🙂