• I was once brought in to recover a system whose development team had left en masse and what was in the source control system was not what was live. Over a million lines of code. I was not even familiar with every part of the stack.

    I was the only person who was interviewed for the task and who both was offered the role and accepted it (some people didn't fancy the challenge). It was a major challenge. There were plenty of flaws - as in any reasonably complex system. My client's client (the users of the system) had some urgent updates needed to meet their business requirement.

    The first deployment of that fixed system was scary. It should have been. It was a huge and complicated task that was core to the business (a UK national coach company - this was their fare calculation engine).

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!