Developer Anonymous - 12 Steps to Recovery of a Codebase.md

Developer Anonymous - 12 Steps to Recovery of a Codebase

1. We admitted we were powerless over our codebase - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. [A new TLD, Framework or Methodology]
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of [Whatever new TLD we picked] as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of codebase.
5. Admitted to our colleagues, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. (We had a retrospective)
6. Were entirely ready to have [Whatever new TLD we picked] remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons users we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others [or break the build].
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God [Whatever new TDL we picked] as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge [read the documentation] of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics at meetups and to practice these principles in all our affairs.