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> None of the business analysts could remember what this statistics feature was used for, so we tried to find out who uses it. We looked at the logs of the last
by rwallace 10y ago
> None of the business analysts could remember what this statistics feature was used for, so we tried to find out who uses it. We looked at the logs of the last 6 months and found out: It was never used! Not a single time!
I've seen a lot of similar stories. General advice: if you want to find out whether anyone really uses something, the relevant time span is a year and a day. It's theoretically possible longer would be needed, but a year and a day will cover almost all cases.
- dagw 10y agoVery good advice, especially for obscure features. If the feature was only used when filling out some field on the annual tax return for example, then no one using it for the past 6 month could be perfectly reasonable if you pick the wrong 6 month period.