You’re a developer at BigBuckEcommerce, the famous retailer, and you have to sit through one of these usual never-ending meetings. Dave, your colleague developer, who never seems to run out of steam when it’s about monopolizing a meeting, claims loudly: “Our system is the most horrible system we’ve ever seen since the days of COBOL and FORTRAN! Everything is coupled together, it’s horrible! I ask for 78 months to completely rewrite everything and finally have the perfect system I’ve always dreamed of!