This was several years ago in grumpy old dev’s career back when he was still enthusiastic young dev. Someone above the CTO had signed a sweetheart deal with one of the large contracting companies to buy a fixed amount of development time and services each year. And so all the technology executives were scrambling to find useful work for the contracting house to do. (This deal also lead to The One Where I Lie To The CTO) At the time I was leading one of the prestige projects in our division and...