Become a Business Partner and Stop Begging for Refactoring
When we, developers, earn enough trust from business people, we become their business partners. As such we enjoy a lot more freedom to refactor.
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Making the business case for a large scale refactoring - Part 2
How to improve a factual business case for a refactoring to make it even more compelling to business people.
Making the business case for a large-scale refactoring - Part 1
With a bit of discipline, we can make a factual business case for a large-scale refactoring that business people won’t resist.
5 Effective warning signals that will get you sponsorship for a large scale refactoring
In 2005, professors Bizer and Petty showed something interesting about human behavior. People make more efforts to avoid what they don’t want, than to get wh...
Presenting a large scale refactoring as a business opportunity
Have you ever tried to talk about refactoring with business people ? Most of the time, the matter is pushed aside or received with rolling eyes … A few weeks...
Incremental Software Development Strategies for Large Scale Refactoring #4 : a Pattern Language
It can sometimes be a real challenge to integrate, let alone deploy, a refactoring step by step ! Here are some patterns that make this easier.
Incremental Software Development Strategies for Large Scale Refactoring #3 : Self-Organize !
Refactoring step by step generate a ton of small tasks here and there. Here are some organization best practices to keep track of them.
Incremental Software Development Strategies for Large Scale Refactoring #2 : Baby Steps
How can we exploit short time slots here and there to perform large scale refactoring?