Timeline for Convincing a technically inexperienced boss to not interfere?
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| Apr 10, 2013 at 18:54 | comment | added | CincinnatiProgrammer | @MrFox Yes basically, although we have enough developers that some could rewrite and some could maintain legacy, we have had major issues with hardware that doesn't come with libraries we can use in our legacy and we have issues finding developers that are able and/or willing to work on such old projects. I plan on finding new employment soon anyway, so I guess I shouldn't worry about it. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 18:52 | comment | added | MrFox | @PaulBrown So you want a re-write while the manager is not Ok'ing it? Frankly, that sounds perfectly normal. Rewrites is how a lot of disaster start. The business might just be deciding that maintaining an old application is less risky and the maintenance cost is justified. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 18:42 | comment | added | CincinnatiProgrammer | @JeffO 1) The manager hasn't coded anything for 10 years. 2) Our legacy software is 23+ year old MFC code, so it is definitely inferior to newer techonlogies 3) We spend all our time fixing bugs that still exist in the legacy that take a week to do instead of five minutes in newer languages. 4) This might be the case with us. 5) I have tried explaining how it would help us, but not the customer, no. Our manager really only assigns random bugs to each worker each week and nothing else, even if the bugs are a decade old or not bugs at all. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 18:23 | comment | added | HLGEM | Very nicely said. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 18:14 | history | edited | MrFox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | psr | The saying "No one ever got fired for buying IBM" is usually used to mean "nobody ever got fired for doing what everyone else does" more than "nobody ever got fired for going with what works". | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 17:42 | history | answered | user8365 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |