On 3 Jul 2013, at 16:40, Sean Bamforth <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Does this sort of thing (re-imagining a old application) sound like fun?
Re-imagining an application can be fun, as by this point a company/team has accumulated a lot of domain knowledge. Formalising that knowledge, reconciling conflicts, questioning the value of what's already been built etc is a difficult challenge. But I wouldn't do that myself by starting writing code on day 1. I can only see that resulting in a scattergun outcome, none of the teams will have enough chance to get a solid enough understanding of the business. The risk I see is that if, as Lee suggested, you attract inexperienced developers, you'll end up with a load of shiny toys but no practical improvement to the business itself. > 2) What would I have to pay you / offer to get you to come? I"m skeptical enough of the value of this that you couldn't pay me to go. However if it actually went ahead, and I wasn't too busy, I might turn up for free just to study how it went. (My answer to 1 is only a theory, after all.) > 3) Anyone been to anything like this before? I haven't. I've seen it proposed as an internal event at one company, but as far as I know it never happened. > Most importantly, what are your thoughts about this? I wasn't able to understand from your original post the reason behind the proposed rewrite. My feeling is the first step should be a root cause analysis of the business, to understand why they have such a large application they feel they can't do anything with. The important thing is to learn the steps they took to end up in this situation, because without that they could easily repeat the same mistakes at great expense – and they probably would. They need a clear understanding of their goals and current obstacles before they can judge if a rewrite will help. With no further information, my experience suggests the answer is probably not. Ash -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmoran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
