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20 years a contracting maintenance programmer. Almost all systems I've dealt with in that time were a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_ball_of_mud Along with this they have had no automated testing, little documentation, one shared dev/qa environment and in most cases not even bug tracking. I've only worked on one "green fields" project where we did TDD, CI, dev/qa/staging environments, etc. It was a wonderful time and I truly miss it.