Refactoring and ROI
Is refactoring code worth the effort? I know many project managers equate refactor with rework. They not even ready to hear this word. I will share one of my refactoring experience: I was working on a fixed price project. We were following some agile practices. But managers were not in favour of following complete agile. In their words you do whatever you want as long as it follows what I want. Still we had SCRUM meetings, SCRUM board, test driven development. Again no SPRINT planning. SPRINT was derived from the project plan and product owner was the business analyst. There were two pages which had price calculation. Over time lot of functionality was added to these two pages and they had started acting cranky. As usual commander had called a meeting and started to blast everyone in the visinity. During this process I uttered the word we will refactor the page. All the hell broke loose. Top manager (commander) and his deputy started to look at me like a intruder. Then after some time