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We don't touch production. We don't upgrade. We are are a X million company we can't afford the risks. These are some of the excuses they put up. And then the
by smallbigfish 9y ago
We don't touch production. We don't upgrade. We are are a X million company we can't afford the risks.
These are some of the excuses they put up.
And then they sit 10 years or more with that bad stuff in there, build even uglier ways around it.
But the time comes to actually do something about. And what was once a one day job becomes "we will hire a consultancy firm to guide us".
- iamdave 9y agoAre you my coworker? Because you sound like him /s No really I appreciate risk management but when it cripples your ability to make decisions, innovate or otherwise ACT on information that could help you be a more efficient team and the develoment team becomes a room full of people doing nothing but maintenance for years on end people leave and companies fail. I just watched that very thing happen this year to my company for exactly that reason. Someone with the word "senior" in their job title was so risk averse that the market caught up, passed us and started eating our lunch. God help them because I can't do it anymore, and writing on the wall says they'll be closing up shop this fall. I'm out the door for good at the end of the week.
- bigiain 9y agoHa. "Outsourcing of blame"! Outsourcing of blame - as a Service. Where's my VC???
- leoc 9y agoAccenture. You've invented Accenture.
- bigiain 9y agoDamn. (Second thought - did they patent it? "A system and method for reallocating blame and responsibility for business related negative outcomes. The negative outcomes include a plurality of career limiting moves and hastily made decisions." ... )
- StavrosK 9y agoWhat do they do, exactly?
- shoo 9y agohttp://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting/ http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting/ http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting2/ http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting2/ http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting3/ http://exposingevilempire.com/accenture/bigtime-consulting3/
- itronitron 9y agocode rots, whether it is being used in production or not, and should be consistently refactored and updated to accommodate the current status quo
- thinkloop 9y agoSo much so that I don't think "refactoring" should even be a concept - that's what coding is. Every feature, bug fix or change should take into account the new relationships and structure of the model. Leaving refactoring for later is ignoring the fundamental required task of coding.
- iovrthoughtthis 9y agoEh, refactoring is distinct from feature developement, prototyping and testing. They are different modes of thought.
- ataturk 9y agoThe problem is that 99.9% of MBA types don't understand what you just said. Worse, they will probably NEVER understand it. In their world, your code is part of an investment. The products in their world, be they software, or whatever, have a cost and that cost is incurred to generate revenue for the company. They don't view software as a living organism, they see it as a cost with a fixed $ attached to it. Maintenance is not a capital expense. If you begin to understand the world in their terms, you realize why our world is so fucked up. You can also maybe approach them with solutions (at times). The other problem with MBA types is that it's all about them and their personal arc and career. They routinely take full credit for any of your success while shifting blame at all times to you. This is how the world is. This is why being a software engineer is an exercise in cognitive dissonance.
- ashleyn 9y agoThis must be how data leaks/vulnerabilities happen.