There’s something to be said for balancing conservatism, because there is far to much risk of just becoming an obstacle in the way of making any progress. I’ve

There’s something to be said for balancing conservatism, because there is far to much risk of just becoming an obstacle in the way of making any progress. I’ve had to deal with a situation recently where they’ve become so conservative that they’re afraid to even consider embr@cing tests, build tools (I.e, use ant/maven/gradle instead of Eclipse as the sanctioned build tool), dependency management (I.e, not just commit jars to source and never document anything), etc. They guy in charge had been burned too many times, but part of that was his own fault for not providing sufficient oversight and advice to junior devs and frankly I’d say a degree of short sightedness with the general approach.