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Great advice. Don't refactor anything bigger than a breadbox. Instead, colonize a new territory, and start a new map - with fewer thickets, one hopes. In my experience, this is possible. It's hard, but it's possible. What's good in the old system survives, all the rest atrophies and dies, and new rails carry the project forward. But, one assumes, you have a running system and you need to keep it running. If not, knock yourself out cleaning up the map. It can't do any harm. Such a shift isn't easy to achieve, but it is possible. Don't just clean-up. Extend what you can, rebuild what you must, strangle what's left. Don't half-ass it. Product group's sanctioned refactoring is half-assing it. Your responsibility is to the product itself. In an academic sense this will be a failure, but practically, with a living-system organism you'd like to keep alive, it can work. |