If you subscribe to the ideas and observations that Dave McComb describes in the book 'Software Wasteland', then the cost of evolving your application is much higher than it should be. Applications may have a static lifecycle but often the data is produces doesn't.
Thanks for the referral. I don't believe I've read it. I'd argue there's a category of data that has a useful lifecycle vs. the cost/risk of keeping that data.
a must read. and yes you're right, not all is worth keeping.
If you subscribe to the ideas and observations that Dave McComb describes in the book 'Software Wasteland', then the cost of evolving your application is much higher than it should be. Applications may have a static lifecycle but often the data is produces doesn't.
Thanks for the referral. I don't believe I've read it. I'd argue there's a category of data that has a useful lifecycle vs. the cost/risk of keeping that data.