Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Janney Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:05:09 -0700 Organization: Mars needs worms Lines: 13 Message-ID: <2piplm9kbu.fsf@shell.xmission.com> References: <4edffd56$0$286$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="PnllQd880uOddfy6hsxHuQ"; logging-data="27246"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19T5zfICD1H5FMUjm+xwbfF" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y5yxsTD14MAzvl9TMnGPeVxQH3U= sha1:lDbsLAOyoX06LBg72yXDdX4ZhLc= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10661 Arved Sandstrom writes: > 1. History is super-important in these organizations. It is how you > locate scapegoats. History is an important working tool for me. It's the first thing I look at when I want to know why a piece of code is written the way it is rather than the way I think it should be, or the way I originally wrote it. Fairly often there turns out to be a reason, usually tied to a customer request. -- Jim Janney