ZZartin,

The process was something I created for myself, being in the position to influence those around me to supply the answers necessary to gain mgmt attention.  I did share it...

Thx, Rod & Steve.

I'm attaching the xmind file here so you can manipulate it at will.

As far as previous use ... I would use the xmind file attached as a...

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I wound up in a highly similar position implementing 'immediate fixes' and never able to get to long-term solutions to stop all the 'immediate fixes.'  It forced me into this...

I would support david.howard suggestion that testing increases over time.

Initially in my career I would size projects at 2:1 ... dev:testing; thus 1/3 of time for testing.  Even 1/3 testing...

Quality is often pushed aside for time constraint.  The trade-off is "good enough."

Often mgmt will take the stance of "good enough" even though the quality code that "could have been...

I too tried a GUI-based git solution ... confusion was abundant after a few edits, commits, attempted merge, push, pull.  Two things helped me the most:

1. a picture

2. Pro Git...

No, generally not engineers, in the formal sense. Although I've met and worked with a few s/w architects that I would consider engineers. I believe a few levels...