Turn on a Dime
It seems the competition has just released a “kid-friendly” version of your company’s online Black Jack product—and it’s selling like hot cakes.
To respond to this new competitive threat, you and the team start work immediately, and for a while everything is going all right. But then something strange starts to happen. What initially looked like a slam dunk is now starting to look really hard.
For one, a lot of code has been copied and pasted throughout the code base. This is making adding new functionality hard because every time you make a change in one place, you need to make the same change in a dozen others.
On top of that, the code you and the team wrote in haste to hit the last deadline has now come back to haunt ...
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