I think most of the replies are solely technical. Sure that is important, but I'd say you need to also spend time with users, customers, management, marketing e

I think most of the replies are solely technical. Sure that is important, but I'd say you need to also spend time with users, customers, management, marketing etc to find out what they want out of the system. Also HR issues - can you hire & fire people? Get money for resources? Bring in new tools? Its often easy to dig into the code as that is familiar but that probably wont be what you'll be judged on down the track.