[hinkley]

Ship of Theseus is the other way. Fact is a lot of companies have code that has been rewritten and they don’t know it, because the devs that did it know they would have been stopped if people knew. But piece by piece, bit by bit, everything was shifted to a new organizational paradigm from the original.

You can’t really do objective case studies on development processes that involve subterfuge. Even if they work.