[jacquesm]

I wrote about retrofitting such a system onto an existing one:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/all-programming-is-bookkeeping/

Which was written in the context of:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/saving-a-project-and-a-company/

And without which that project likely would not have seen a successful end result.

It really is a war story, and what I like most about it is how at the drop of a hat a team assembled to get the job done, cleanly tackled the problem(s) and transferred duties to a new crew.