If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Or, what?

When I promised to write about how to reduce friction from developers’ work day, I am sure that most expected me to focus on what non-developers ought to do in order to improve the working lives of developers.

But let’s face it, the major cause of friction, crappy legacy code, is our own fault. Developers wrote that crappy code, after all. So let’s focus on what we can do about that.