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SE Radio 242: Dave Thomas on Innovating Legacy Systems

SE Radio 242: Dave Thomas on Innovating Legacy Systems

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 10 Jahren

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Sven Johann talks with Dave Thomas about
innovating legacy systems. Dave clarifies first why legacy
systems are both valuable and problematic. Next, they discuss bad
systemic and good incremental approaches for innovation of legacy
systems; why you shouldn't rewrite an old system but rather focus
on tactical changes to reduce cost or increase productivity
within one quarter; examples of how to measure success of the
innovation; how to get full support from management to use any
technology you want; when cleaning up the codebase makes sense
and when not; good ideas to innovate the codebase; approaches to
introduce tests; and how to deal with data