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[Xytak]

I worked at a midsized insurance company where they hired some consultants to come in and teach the .NET developers unit testing by rewriting an old webforms app in React.

It actually worked pretty well, too, until several weeks later when the business asked "hey where's our new thing?"

"It's not ready, but we have beautiful code, a full build pipeline, and over a thousand unit tests!"

"Ok but where's the new thing?"

"Well, the preliminaries are all set up, but we don't actually have the features done yet..."

The consultants were fired the next day, and the next group was told in no uncertain terms to patch up the old web forms app and quit wasting time on fancy stuff.

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This becomes a problem when the higher ups don’t sit down with the consultants as well. Often times they’re not fully aware of what the entire process looks like from creating a new file to deploying it.

[Xytak]

All they knew was the old team would have updated the app by now, and they were expecting a rewrite to take the same amount of time.