Dr. Gernot Starke — Legacy Evolution Done Right

As developers and architects, we spend most of our time adding features to our products (so-called “maintenance“). We are often annoyed about the many deficits of these systems: Even supposedly simple things are becoming incredibly difficult with these legacy systems, the time-to-market is getting worse and worse, as business is calling for more and more features. Rarely we find time to reduce technical debt and clean up increasingly messy dependencies. In this talk youll learn about possibilities to systematically escape legacy hell and reduce technical and other debt in your systems. Get to know strategical and tactical improvement approaches you can scale to fit your actual situation: In the first step, we will conduct a breadth-first search for existing problems, issues and risks within your system. We clearly identify technical, organizational and communicative debts and determine their severity in order to concentrate on the worst of them.. Only then well start improvin