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How do you take over someone else's code?
Inheriting a codebase nobody documented. How a takeover actually works, what gets assessed first, and why a rewrite is usually the wrong instinct.
Inheriting a codebase nobody documented. How a takeover actually works, what gets assessed first, and why a rewrite is usually the wrong instinct.
Four phases: diagnostic, architecture, build and deploy, then ongoing operations. What happens in each, and why the order matters.
Hiring an outside team to keep software you already own running, rather than to build something new. What the engagement covers, and what it is not.
The person who understood your system is gone. What actually breaks, what it costs to recover, and how to take ownership back without a rewrite.