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In our company we do medical devices. It is a hard SDLC business. Once a colleague of us left and shifted over to another (much bigger) medical device company.
by oaiey 3y ago
In our company we do medical devices. It is a hard SDLC business. Once a colleague of us left and shifted over to another (much bigger) medical device company. I met him some years later and he told me, retroperspectively, our company is a high-performing, super agile group. His new employer needs a year for a two line code change without really changing but only adding something. And that despite him pushing and pushing.
To be fair: to modify blood dialysis systems is no joke business.
- KWxIUElW8Xt0tD9 3y agoAT&T 5ESS switch had a similar atmosphere back in the day (no idea about now). The rule was no function deletion so you delete the code in the function instead. I remember reading about a very talented guy from Bell Labs being on the 5ESS team and writing some ridiculously small number of lines of code in one year due to all the rules in place to prevent major telephone system issues.
- mindentropy 3y agoThere is a lot of analysis that goes with it. I worked in both medical devices and also transportation.(Rolling stock signalling systems). It is definitely not a joke when you are moving such huge mass of metal with people in it.