The Daily WTF

For twenty years, Initech didn’t have any sort of internal IT or anyone doing any sort of cohesive software purchasing or internal development strategy. Of course, as the company grew, they needed customized applications. With no official approach to doing this, the users did the best they could, using the developer tool installed on nearly every corporate Windows workstation: Microsoft Access.

That’s when Kris got hired, along with a pile of other developers. The team had one simple mission: convert these Access applications into “real” applications.

Like pretty much every one of these projects, there were no requirements, beyond, “it should do the same thing as the existing application, but not be a fragile mess of overgrown code developed by people who didn’t know what they were doing beyond just making it work”. This meant that for a lot of the requirements analysis, Kris and the team needed to just

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