u/Living_Station2978

I'm working as software engineer at a software service provider company. We develop software on project basis for other companies. Every project has an internal "lead" who oversees the project, does some admin stuff, handles the client and sometimes still develops.

I was working on a project with 3 people. Me (as individual contributor), one other as the internal lead and a third external contractor. In fact it was the external contractor who pulled most of the weight in the project. He was an ex-internal who quit but knew the client and project context for years already. Therefore he was the factual lead. I mostly developed the project with him. Our internal lead mostly did some admin stuff.

Now a couple of days ago, our internal lead came to my desk, together with a new person and informed me that he would quit the project and the new person would now be the new internal lead. I never met this new person. He is a fresh uni grad with less than one year of experience, neither in management nor development. He doesn't know the project nor the client. I am the only person inside our company who knows the project, the client and the external contractor. I wonder why I wasn't contacted first before a new lead was determined. Maybe I would have liked to do it (not sure though).

I now wonder if I should ask the skip manager for clarification of this process. I assume it was him who proposed the new lead. However, the skip also doesn't know me in person yet because the project is technically located in another department of the company and we just haven't met yet.

What would you do? Should I talk to the skip and ask for a clarification of the process or just let it pass and continue my work? I'm not 100% sure if this admin work would be my type of thing but I'm definitely not fine with just being left out of the process. Also, if they had asked me, I'm sure I would have willingly done it.