Eating the IT Elephant
Most conventional approaches to IT development assume that you’re building entirely new systems. But such “Greenfield” development is a rarity. Nearly every project exists in the context of existing, complex system landscapes —Brownfields—that often are poorly documented and poorly understood. This authors of this book take this reality into account and offer a new, fully optimized approach to “Brownfield” development. In the chapter excerpted here, they examine the necessary technical context, requirements, and characteristics of the Elephant Eater, a machine specially designed to help you devour those complex, elephantine, expensive projects that all too often seem to fail.
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