A mentoring client of mine said this recently: I took ownership of some strategically pivotal code and did precisely that, typically refactoring twice a week for about 18 months (my delivery was unaffected). The refactorings took at most half an hour. Last week I got reprimanded. I’ve read the room and stopped. Someone asked why someone reprimanded them, from which came this reply: I should be refactoring under an initiative, the colleague felt. I said I was refactoring to the Four Rules of...
