[andy_ppp]

Haha, I've worked at places like this where the whole business depends on a system that nobody touches and integration tests are put around it and the business never makes any progress and all ideas are stalled around "sorry Bob's old code prevents this from being possible".

The fact that in some instances this works is not a cogent argument for writing shitty code... there are some places where it is an absolute f-ing disaster!

[b3morales]

This also has a tendency to create ever-building organizational pressure for the Big Rewrite. And when the pressure overcomes the resistance, the dam bursts and all the debris turns into a never-finished ball of mud because there are so many business hopes and dreams pinned on the new system. Identifying release valves along the way can prevent that quagmire.