Throw It Over the Wall
Verb Phrase · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
To hand work to another team without staying engaged in the outcome or supporting the transition. In engineering slang, throwing it over the wall is the classic failure mode of siloed organizations.
In plain English: To pass work to someone else without helping ensure it succeeds.
Example: "Product threw it over the wall to engineering with a polished deck and almost no operational detail, which guaranteed painful rework later."