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Over the last few weeks, during downtimes between meetings and so on, I have spent several hours deleting unused and duplicated code. By the time I was done I’d killed around 500 lines of code (out of a 20,000 line project). So you shrank the codebase by a couple percent. So what? Why would I ever bother doing that?

Well I’ll tell you, deleting code provides a number of wonderful benefits — some purely mental, and some very practical.

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So how do we manage this communication chasm? We all agree that having some software tools is good for the business. We all agree that there is a cost to develop custom software. But as we go deeper, we don’t understand much. The developers don’t understand the business domain and the business folks don’t understand the software domain. One way to look at this is by observing the growth in the number of details over the course of development.

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Summa is proud of our history of consistently delivering successful outcomes for our customers. Our reputation is built on being a trusted business partner that can be counted to “get it right the first time. “ Our track record of delivering success is illustrated by the fact that 90% of our customers have done repeat business with us. But this level of consistency and achievement does not just happen by itself, so how does Summa do it? There are three main factors that contribute to our strategy for success: having the right people, using the right technology, and utilizing the right methodologies.

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