>#7 The Never-ending crisis: yeah ditto. My company has tons of these shitty crufty systems that need a lot of work whenever we go in to do anything -- because

>#7 The Never-ending crisis: yeah ditto. My company has tons of these shitty crufty systems that need a lot of work whenever we go in to do anything -- because they were thrown together under unrealistic timelines. Now here we are doing yet another layer of unrealistic stuff utilizing these systems -- it's brutal. We start grooming a story and it turns into this sprawling epic of "holy shit this legacy system sucks but we don't have time to rewrite it, nor do an impact analysis of changing it" :(