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Paying people 100’s of thousands of dollars a year to get tens of thousands’ worth of work done because everything takes eight times as long as it reasonably should is both expensive and gets old real quick.

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But there is no proof it takes 8x as long or costs 100000s or more because of that; if you can prove that then many companies will say, yup, that’s a shoe in, let’s rewrite! I have been in a lot of rewrites and more often than not, it did make the tech folks happy, but it did nothing, immediately or middle/long term, to the bottom line or the productivity. Worse; the productivity plummets at first because a lot of new things have to be learned.

There is no proof that cargo cult agile improves efficiency or reduces costs but many companies do it regardless.

Your managers should be former or current software engineers who can evaluate the technical merits of a rewrite.

> There is no proof that cargo cult agile improves efficiency or reduces costs but many companies do it regardless.

But the story feels like it should work. It feels logical.

I don’t like how well you described my job

I don’t like it much either. I have friends who don’t think about such things. They tend to be happier 95% of the time. Not as useful when everything catches on fire though.

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