Jess RoseJun 25, 2025

Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

Show threadJames Smith 💾
@jessie I love this. I did a thing when doing system architecture a while back of starting to add people's brains into the diagrams for legacy systems; I think it's a useful concept! https://www.dxw.com/2022/07/legacy-tech-systems-are-like-the-walking-dead/
Attack of the IT Zombies (or why legacy tech systems are like the walking dead) - dxw

How we can transform the data and connections in legacy tech intentionally and effectively so people can do their best work.

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Jun 25, 2025 at 12:52pmWeb
Show threadGilesJun 25, 2025
@Floppy @jessie *makes note for the document I have to write about technical legacy / debt in the university sector*
Show threadZeborahJun 27, 2025

@Floppy Ohhh that is a great idea. Drawing system diagrams is something I love to make sense of how our tangled systems work or don't work - definitely need to start adding in little photos of the people who make some of the processes *actually* work.

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