Two weeks? That is an insignificant problem. Whether the author succeeded or failed, it's a meaningless data point What is generally referred to here is any bu

Two weeks? That is an insignificant problem. Whether the author succeeded or failed, it's a meaningless data point What is generally referred to here is any business system that has (my number) at least a man-year of work invested, and will probably take three man months at minimum to rewrite. These systems are everywhere. A midsize company can have hundreds. They can be excel spreadsheets and access databases. System rewrites, despite theoretically having more stable requirements, are probably even worse than the usual software project failure rate, because they will be underinvested, the new/additional requirements will be 2x the effort per the usual