# Can you take over software another developer built?

Yes — support for existing software is one of the six core services, covering ongoing maintenance for applications the team did not originally build.

Inherited codebases usually begin with an audit: what the software does, what condition it is in, and what it would take to make it safely changeable. That assessment comes before any commitment to a rewrite, because a rewrite is frequently the wrong answer.

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Source: https://answers.modernmcguire.com/can-you-take-over-existing-software