XPToronto Talk – Understanding and Dealing with Technical Debt by Amr...
Tonight Amr Elssamadisy from GembaSystems presented at the XPToronto/Agile User group. There was a big turnout of almost 40 people and I think one person didn’t actually have a seat. What follows are...
View ArticleInventors Dilemma and the Dead Core
Ken Schwaber has a great presentation where he talks about the Innovator’s Dillemma and how companies build a (design) dead core. A typical (success) story Management – we need to hit the date....
View ArticleStrategies for Effectively Managing Legacy Systems
Derek Longmuir presented ThoughtWorks QTB on working with legacy systems. You can see the video and slides on InfoQ. I like the definition given by Michael Feathers: Legacy code is simply code without...
View ArticleSustaining Agility Game
Have you been on a software project where each release gets harder and harder? Many projects fall into the tar pit of the Design Dead Core. Why do nearly all software projects fail to balance short...
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