Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? (Phase 1)
This great article -Last In - First Out: Your Application is a Rotting Old Shack, Now What? - tells some serious truths about how badly a lot of application development is conducted. Though perhaps a better description of the failed processes would be “application management” or “application lifecycle”. The Phase 1 of this “application lifecycle” generally works like this:
Company identifies need for Application Company decides internal team can’t develop Application and they decide to buy off-the-shelf Application.