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Haunted Graveyards in Consulting
The daily struggles of a consultant as a software engineer.
Every organization has them: From one-off integration software for that one customer with deep enough pockets, to code that was hammered out too quickly to make the KPIs happy. In the worst case, they prevent an organization from adapting to changing business requirements, or react to security vulnerabilities, leading to significant financial and reputational damage. With only a single of these conditions met, the code is at risk of becoming a haunted graveyard: a place no one dares to touch for fear of breaking something they don’t fully understand.
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