[cdevs]

I notice at my job there were a lot of i need feature x to which we commonly replied i would like to build x but the horrible old y system is stopping me or we would just make things much worse to try and meld feature x into legacy/messy y system. I was a dev dealing with the legacy systems at my company for years and then i took over management and said we need to remove or clean up these legacy weak points so we can build features faster and more maintainable, so yes we started at the first day of this year cleaning up from the worst / weakest links first on. In 6 months we are done using 2 new hires to complete new work while 2 senior devs did clean up. 6 months compared to years of spinning tires was well worth it. Eventually the CEO gets sick of hearing excuses of why we cant build this or that or are wasting 50% of our time fixing bugs. Productivity is soaring now for multiple reasons at my company, testing, documentation, removing old systems and even though we have a small team every senior dev is leading a junior dev. Side note this is the first time we have hired junior developers at this company and its been a big pay off giving a lot more free time to the senior guys to work on the most important things.