It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015)
I want to fault this but I can't. Code reviewer who's not afraid to reject code? Check. Proper testing of code changes? Check.The process probably looks silly in this case because nothing went wrong. But with a hard-coded variable being changed, who is to say it won't break some other system by being changed? And if the variable was then moved to a config file, who's to say again that it might not break in some obscure way? Such as if the config file is not found in the uat/test environment? Additionally after all this, the manager can change the variable in the config file as they please without this process need going through again.