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Supporting other people’s work

Supporting other peoples work

Posted by on Feb 8, 2012 in Blogger | 0 comments

A fellow developer recently posed a question on LinkedIn, along the lines of “Should I take on the support of an organically-grown legacy software system?”. Written as advice to the developer, our response was: Imagine you’re a mechanic who is asked to work on a car. You can see that all the doors have been replaced as they are all slightly different colours. One of the windows has plastic sheeting over it, but that doesn’t matter because nobody ever sits in that seat. The badge on the back says it’s a Honda but that really does look...

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