Loved the post. I spent more than a year trying to pull a prominent reinsurer on the rock, out of spreadsheet hell, and into the modern age. Baby step #1 would

Loved the post. I spent more than a year trying to pull a prominent reinsurer on the rock, out of spreadsheet hell, and into the modern age. Baby step #1 would have been to transfer critical data to a database environment and baby step #2 would have been to extract business logic and very-poorly written VBA code into an external code library (Python) that is source-controlled and auditable... I can still hear the Chikadees laughing at me. Last I heard said firm was still deep in spreadsheet hell.