>You are about to get a working system to work on which you don’t know anything about.
>You have ALL programmers dream:
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>Redesign it so I will be easy to maintain
>Improve 100 times
>Do it in the least time possible.
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>I would like to hear from you, how you go about doing this. What steps you take and what tools you use.
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>(I am downloading Visual UML trial)
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>Thanks
No mention is made of the budget. One thing that helps to keep the time short is to use a good framework, plus any other 3rd. party tools that can save you work, like Crystal Reports or StoneField.
And talking about modelling tools, in a recent thread, it was discussed that InfoModeler - an excellent modeling tool, IMHO - was renamed to VisioModeler, IIRC, and that this one is now free (the product is being discontinued).
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