Timeline for How to talk to management about 'genius' code?
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| Feb 16, 2023 at 16:02 | comment | added | mathreadler | There is no blame being passed. Just an attempt to explain what others may have had in mind. | |
| Feb 16, 2023 at 14:32 | comment | added | fectin | @mathreadler as stilez says, don't litigate blame. Maybe predecessors had a plan to fix it, maybe there was some (poorly documented) reason for each of these decisions, it doesn't matter. The current situation is what's at issue; your path forward starts with reality, not blame. (And the blame game is like musical chairs - few people are mature enough to be willing to lose, but many people are willing to just not play) | |
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| Apr 29, 2018 at 2:37 | comment | added | Ross Millikan | The emphasis on specific understandable examples is spot on. If it didn't even compile, they must have been stuck on some build from the past for a while. Do you have that version available? If so, you might want to go back to that as your base and modify from there. Point out that whatever features were "added" since then have not been added. If you can find some examples that people think have been added but aren't there it enhances your position. | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 21:23 | comment | added | mathreadler | @jpmc26 Okay. Let's hope that evidence does not disappear then or is turned against him. Its usually a bad idea to tell people what they don't want to hear. For example that they have been fooled by the previous guys to think what they did was awesome. | |
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| Apr 27, 2018 at 22:52 | comment | added | jpmc26 | Excellent answer. The only thing I would add is some emphasis that your #1 point can be used to build credibility. These are failures that the OP can easily demo to their employer, at least in part, to provide visible evidence that something is horribly wrong. | |
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| Apr 26, 2018 at 23:58 | history | answered | Stilez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |