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> The program should preferably be discarded, and the new team should be given the opportunity to resolve the problem from scratch. Yeah right. "We don't know

by deskr 2y ago

> The program should preferably be discarded, and the new team should be given the opportunity to resolve the problem from scratch. Yeah right. "We don't know how it works so we're going to ditch it and create it again." It works in some cases but by no means should that be the default.

datadrivenangel 2y ago
This is the right answer, except that when software has been so neglected that this is the best answer, individuals within the organization that neglected to maintain the software will realize that this is their only chance to get bugs fixed or new features added, and so the requirements will expand until the re-write probably dies.