> After several meetings, we came to the conclusion that the best approach was to simply halt the old website development and build a new one from scratch using the best technologies and practices.
Spoken like a true developer. Trash the old system, reinvent the wheel, prioritize the delight of the devs, leave the client with something that is totally obsolete and nobody else knows how to work on in a couple of years.
If that's not contract development in a nutshell I don't know what is.
They mention that the legacy system was scaled vertically and expensive. Sometimes a complete re-write makes sense.
Some companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for terrible CMS websites. I've seen this situation 3 times in my career and for all three a re-write was the best long term option when balancing all the pros and cons.
Spoken like a true developer. Trash the old system, reinvent the wheel, prioritize the delight of the devs, leave the client with something that is totally obsolete and nobody else knows how to work on in a couple of years.
If that's not contract development in a nutshell I don't know what is.