Alex's Soapbox: Patterns of Failure
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Published: Mar 02, 2010
Not too long ago, I was at a client site, working to understand and improve their development process.
From a birds-eye view, their development organization was a lot like many other Corporate IT set-ups: they had a sizable portfolio of proprietary applications that were built for and used by different business groups. Some of these applications were “mission critical” and had highly formalized promotion and deployment processes, while others were ancillary and were hardly ever used.
