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I've experienced most of the above so many times it's depressing. I mixture of shoddy programming practices, moving goalposts and unsympathetic management deadlines means that what we all know should happen, and what really happens, are two very different things
– Ben Hillier
Commented Jul 1, 2016 at 8:48
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This is a good answer, because while many of the others are technical more correct - this takes offset in the real world and while we all want to live in a world where everything is well tested, well documented - we don't. Legacy code, strange implementations, misunderstandings, unreasonable stakeholders, bad weather ..... life will throw bad stuff at you and you'll have to deal with it.
– Allan S. Hansen
Commented Jul 4, 2016 at 6:12

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