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Two months to refactor something that already worked fine? The product owner must have been on vacation. That was a very expensive project that produced zero business value.

I've wasted many 2 months on way worst tbh, at least he got something used by users with little, but still some, improvement

I don’t know if I would see ”Now I'm the only go person so guess who gets paged for everything” as an improvement.

It produces little product value sure. However on the flip side the eng team basically spent two months of salary teaching this employee some incredibly important lessons around being pragmatic and crafting software that can be maintained by the team.

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