Paul Butcher

“Refactoring,” as a term, is rapidly becoming meaningless. The final nail in the coffin, for me, was this morning when I heard a sales guy say:

I need to refactor the pipeline in Salesforce—it’s got a bit messy and needs tidying up.

When a term has become so generic that sales guys start (mis-)using it, it’s lost all value.

He’s not alone. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard software eng