It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code

Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by aneth on Thursday May 17, 2012 @08:24PM (#3989792)

I generally agree that this process doesn't sound all that terrible for code that controls a large, live manufacturing line. Try changing the code that runs a pacemaker - you'll learn all sorts of things about process.

This line however is the road to hell:

"if the company wants to spend $50,000 to change 1 line of code, and it's not going under, then that's obviously the right decision"

Just because a company is successful does not mean it does everything right and does not contain the seed of its own destruction.

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by lukeschlather on Thursday May 17, 2012 @09:42PM (#3990009)

Really, I think the problem with this scenario is not that the company wanted to "spend $50,000 to change 1 line of code." The problem is that management wanted to spend $500 to change one line of code, the dev team spun up to spend $50,000, ended up spending maybe $5,000 before management told them "no really, we don't care about what you think, give us the $500 fix."

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