Comments on: Battle Plan: Shipping Someone’s Problem Child Good article. Item 2 is gold - "Treat all previous work on the project as if it was done by a genius savant who forgets his trousers." People are very quick to dismiss other people's work but it's worth taking the time to look for the intelligence behind the immediate idiocy . Sure, it may not be there, but often it is, and it's there for a reason. If you can find the reason then you'll learn a bit more about the mindset behind the original developers. Good article.

Item 2 is gold – “Treat all previous work on the project as if it was done by a genius savant who forgets his trousers.” People are very quick to dismiss other people’s work but it’s worth taking the time to look for the intelligence behind the immediate idiocy . Sure, it may not be there, but often it is, and it’s there for a reason. If you can find the reason then you’ll learn a bit more about the mindset behind the original developers.

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