This is also true outside of this in functions like finance. We inherited an important spreadsheet from the contingent finance team brought in to hold things together while the company went through a structural transition. The spreadsheets were horrible - bad logic, lots of “Easter eggs”(points where people hard coded a number in a sea of formulas number where you would have excepted a calculation which is very hard to catch), and just overall poor incremental design that didn’t take much into account except to fix an immediate problem.
It was a pain but all the collective griping and work to improve it made us stronger as a group and also made us way better excel designers.
It was a pain but all the collective griping and work to improve it made us stronger as a group and also made us way better excel designers.