Example Legacy Scenario
A Very Brief Overview
The salient points:
- You work for a furniture company
- You get a promotion!
- You are now responsible for the warehouse inventory system...
- No one has touched it for a while
- It was written in 2003
- It’s a 3-tier architecture
- It basically works, although people moan about it.
- What do you do?
Why this example?
Most organizations are not primarily focused on technology! One of the reasons I have picked a furniture company is that any IT systems they have will support the main business rather than being the revenue driver. This is true for most IT systems in most organizations – web companies selling online services are not representative.
You have found yourself responsible for this system and discovered that no one has developed (or performed maintenance) programming on this system for a while. However, the system is used and performs an important and core (supporting) function within...
