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hey the author here. It depends on what you mean by large. Not world wide large but large like 500 people worked there. I was just a frontend jquery guy how wa

by lampe3 13y ago

hey the author here. It depends on what you mean by large. Not world wide large but large like 500 people worked there. I was just a frontend jquery guy how was doing some fancy frontend stuff but i head a look into the company. They failed not because of old code. What is bad code choices ? "we as software developers are simply there to enable people to do their jobs better." Exactly! "it's to make a business successful." Right. For example in a company which was a eCommerce Company. They wrote the eCommerce Software them self and it worked for 6 years but they got bigger and bigger and the manager didn't care to make the software better. One day the main developer quit the job and nobody now would know how to change that or to do that. is this still a good Bad/inelegant/old software ?

c0nsumer 13y ago
To me that's not a software problem, that's a management problem. That organization did not pass the hit-by-a-bus test, it's just that in this case the bus was the main dev walking away. That's a planning / organization problem, not an IT / software one.
- lampe3 13y ago
  In companies often developer do organizing too. Or you have influence on the management
dougmccune 13y ago
I'm assuming your anecdotes (the 500 person company and the eCommerce company) are two different companies? Because if a 500 person company folded when they lost a single employee then there's a whole lot more messed up than quality of code.
- lampe3 13y ago
  Yes should point that out more clear! the 500 person company had more then just technical problems.
sliverstorm 13y ago
That context of size is important. To some people, 500 is a large company. Indeed, in many respects, 500 really is a large company. Only ~0.3% of US companies have more than 500 people [1]. But HP has 317,000 employees. So depending on who you are talking to, "large" suggests different things. [1]: http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html

by lampe3 13y ago

c0nsumer 13y ago

To me that's not a software problem, that's a management problem. That organization did not pass the hit-by-a-bus test, it's just that in this case the bus was the main dev walking away. That's a planning / organization problem, not an IT / software one.

lampe3 13y ago
In companies often developer do organizing too. Or you have influence on the management

dougmccune 13y ago

I'm assuming your anecdotes (the 500 person company and the eCommerce company) are two different companies? Because if a 500 person company folded when they lost a single employee then there's a whole lot more messed up than quality of code.

lampe3 13y ago
Yes should point that out more clear! the 500 person company had more then just technical problems.

sliverstorm 13y ago

That context of size is important. To some people, 500 is a large company. Indeed, in many respects, 500 really is a large company. Only ~0.3% of US companies have more than 500 people [1]. But HP has 317,000 employees. So depending on who you are talking to, "large" suggests different things. [1]: http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html