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What's the name of the anti-pattern where some punk wanders in and after a week or a month decides they totally understand all of the business requirements and

What's the name of the anti-pattern where some punk wanders in and after a week or a month decides they totally understand all of the business requirements and constraints involved in a system that took five years to get to it's current state and decides a rewrite should be launched immediately?

zipfle 10y ago
Wednesday
- rmgraham 10y ago
  I was going to say hubris, but Wednesday also works.
  - knieveltech 10y ago
    So...I'm calling in sick Thursday. glhf.
new_hackers 10y ago
What is the name of the anti-pattern where the new person to the team can't do any work because the DM has the only working copy of the source code on their own machine. Where version control is keeping folders in the desktop labeled 'new', 'new2', 'new3'. Where you do fixes in the live database. Where there is no test database, or any tests. Where deploying is copying some files to a shared drive. Where functions have multiple uses and multiple effects based on what flags are set. Where the answer to every flow control problem is more flags. Where "no the users can't upgrade to Access 2015, this only works with Access 12". Where the project maintainer can't be bothered to learn anything new, because they've already forgot more than you'll ever know. Where we bs the managers and users in to beliving it's supposed to work that way, and if it crashes well then don't do that. I guess there is more than one anti-pattern
- knieveltech 10y ago
  The name of that anti-pattern would be 2005. What kind of clown car outfit are you working for?
  - new_hackers 10y ago
    Sorry, you struck a nerve. You didn't deserve that response. I've been in that situation before though, and gotten viewed as the "young punk" for merely suggesting that we improve the code and processes (which as you can tell were extensive enough changes that to the outside observer it would be called a "rewrite")
    - knieveltech 10y ago
      No worries, I've been that young punk more than once myself.

zipfle 10y ago

Wednesday

rmgraham 10y ago
I was going to say hubris, but Wednesday also works.
- knieveltech 10y ago
  So...I'm calling in sick Thursday. glhf.

new_hackers 10y ago

What is the name of the anti-pattern where the new person to the team can't do any work because the DM has the only working copy of the source code on their own machine. Where version control is keeping folders in the desktop labeled 'new', 'new2', 'new3'. Where you do fixes in the live database. Where there is no test database, or any tests. Where deploying is copying some files to a shared drive. Where functions have multiple uses and multiple effects based on what flags are set. Where the answer to every flow control problem is more flags. Where "no the users can't upgrade to Access 2015, this only works with Access 12". Where the project maintainer can't be bothered to learn anything new, because they've already forgot more than you'll ever know. Where we bs the managers and users in to beliving it's supposed to work that way, and if it crashes well then don't do that. I guess there is more than one anti-pattern

knieveltech 10y ago
The name of that anti-pattern would be 2005. What kind of clown car outfit are you working for?
- new_hackers 10y ago
  Sorry, you struck a nerve. You didn't deserve that response. I've been in that situation before though, and gotten viewed as the "young punk" for merely suggesting that we improve the code and processes (which as you can tell were extensive enough changes that to the outside observer it would be called a "rewrite")
  - knieveltech 10y ago
    No worries, I've been that young punk more than once myself.