When you’re in a position to take over a project, there is going to be a tendency to want to start over, or change everything because you want things done in a way that makes sense to you. The project might not be on the “road to success”, so you would rather scrap it and start a new one.
Don’t.
Hundreds of hours were spent making the project how it is, the mistakes that where made, the long hours spent discussing key decisions that you might not yet understand. If you just took over the project, how can you be sure that you won’t make those same mistakes? How can you be sure that you can any better by starting from scratch? You can’t, and you might make the same mistakes as the original founders and even add some more of your own. You’ll have to spend hundreds of hours just to catch up to where the original project was left off before you can even start to make progress! Instead take the time to understand the project, its goals, and why things are done the way they are. Once you understand that, you can then begin to think about changing things for the better.
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