Managing Technical Debt Reducing Friction in Software Development |
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| Author:
| Kruchten, Philippe
Nord, Robert
Ozkaya, Ipek |
| Series title: | SEI Series in Software Engineering Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-13-564593-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2019 |
| Publisher: | Addison Wesley Professional
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.99 |
Book Description:
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Master Best Practices for Managing Technical Debt to Promote Software Quality and Productivity
As software systems mature, earlier design or code decisions made in the context of budget or schedule constraints increasingly impede evolution and innovation. This phenomenon is called technical debt, and practical solutions exist. In Managing Technical Debt, three leading experts introduce integrated, empirically developed principles and practices that any software...
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Master Best Practices for Managing Technical Debt to Promote Software Quality and Productivity
As software systems mature, earlier design or code decisions made in the context of budget or schedule constraints increasingly impede evolution and innovation. This phenomenon is called technical debt, and practical solutions exist. In Managing Technical Debt, three leading experts introduce integrated, empirically developed principles and practices that any software professional can use to gain control of technical debt in any software system.
Using real-life examples, the authors explain the forms of technical debt that afflict software-intensive systems, their root causes, and their impacts. They introduce proven approaches for identifying and assessing specific sources of technical debt, limiting new debt, and "paying off" debt over time. They describe how to establish managing technical debt as a core software engineering practice in your organisation.
- Discover how technical debt damages manageability, quality, productivity, and morale-and what you can do about it
- Clarify root causes of debt, including the linked roles of business goals, source code, architecture, testing, and infrastructure
- Identify technical debt items, and analyse their costs so you can prioritise action
- Choose the right solution for each technical debt item: eliminate, reduce, or mitigate
- Integrate software engineering practices that minimise new debt