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According to Swanson's maintenance activities, what category does paying down Technical Debt in a Software fall into?
I am trying to understand the categories of maintenance activities described by E.B. Swanson, i.e., Perfective, Adaptive, and Corrective; which category does paying down Technical Debt (TD) fall into? ...
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How to prioritize maintenance work and tech tebt with something like User Pain?
User Pain is an established concept to prioritize bugs in a consistent way that is stable over time by calculating a single score based on a small number of criteria.
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How to work with a messy codebase and client [duplicate]
A client came to me with some features he wanted implementing. Easy enough to do what he asked. He paid me, I agreed to start on the start date and finish in 3 weeks.
The code base is a disaster. It ...
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How can I explain this is an anti-pattern? [closed]
I recently started at a new job.
The existing system works OK but is poorly designed and hard to maintain, and they are planning to rebuild it in MVC and I fear it will be much worse. (Not because ...
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Considerations before rewriting a software component from scratch? [duplicate]
A piece of software is a patchwork of old and undocumented efforts. There are no comments, no documentation, and the code is hairy -- it involves Unix shell scripts that check for dummy files and then ...
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Disillusioned with agile; how do you prepare for life after release 1.1? [closed]
My company is going full steam with the agile process, with multiple agile projects in work. The first agile team, the proof of concept, carried the product through release and the first post ...
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How to convince my coworkers that doing things right will save them time
I recently started at a new company, with a handful of programmers. Its a medium sized company, with around 70 employees, but IT only has 9-10, and there are 3 "programmers" beside myself. However, ...
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How to introduce a new pattern into an existing codebase? [duplicate]
In my quest to better my development skills I learn new design patterns. In sample projects or personal projects it's really easy to adapt new patterns into my code.
However at work I have a large ...
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Remake old web forms application in asp.net mvc [duplicate]
I've inherited the code maintenance of a complex web site for a customer that continuously requests enhancements for it. This application took years to develop and I'm facing increased difficulties to ...
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In the aggregate: how will we maintain legacy systems? [closed]
NEW YORK - With a blast that made
skyscrapers tremble, an 83-year-old
steam pipe sent a powerful message
that the miles of tubes, wires and
iron beneath New York and other U.S.
cities are ...
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