Maintenance should be just that, maintenance - something you attend to regularly to prevent future problems. The problem our industry has is that every approach

Maintenance should be just that, maintenance - something you attend to regularly to prevent future problems. The problem our industry has is that every approach to software has become a religious like cargo cult activity. In my opinion the cause of that is the consultancy-executive symbiotic nexus, consultants promise exciting silver bullets and executives buy in because they can always blame the consultants if it goes wrong.