" fire devs that can't manage to keep up with current practice in their career."
… and drop the extra workload on the existing staff while you try to find somebody with proficiency in ObjectiveCobol# to modernize/rewrite the existing app, to specs that consist of "all existing use-cases (of which we have no list, but your fired predecessor knew them all by heart, apart from the ones he forgot) must continue to function". I.e., you'll have to hire them back at conslutant rates now.
Yes, I'm up to my eyebrows in public sector brownfield, does that show a lot?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
