Taming Your Dragon : Addressing Your Technical Debt / by Dr. Andrew Richard Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Andrew Richard.

Series:

Professional and Applied Computing Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coding theory.

Information theory.

Data structures (Computer science).

Computer programming.

Software engineering.

Computer science.

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Human-computer interaction.

Coding and Information Theory.

Data Structures and Information Theory.

Programming Techniques.

Software Engineering.

Computer Science.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Local Subjects:

Coding and Information Theory.

Data Structures and Information Theory.

Programming Techniques.

Software Engineering.

Computer Science.

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2024.

Summary:

Technical debt is an often-overlooked problem that the software industry needs to take more seriously. All organizations are impacted by it, most wish that they had less of it, but need help in understanding the nature of the beast. This book aims to clear up any misconceptions and show you how to implement a sound technical debt management program to suit your company’s needs. You’ll learn the greatest challenge in solving the technical debt dilemma is not to find solutions to it, but rather to find solutions to the human and organizational issues that lead to that debt. For example, convincing senior stakeholders of the importance of addressing technical debt, getting stakeholders to acknowledge how their actions lead to unintentional debt, and enabling teams to prioritize technical debt over short-term goals. Therefore, this book is divided into three parts: defining technical debt, understanding technical debt, and tackling technical debt. It begins by explaining why technical debt should not be considered a technical problem, but rather a problem of how trade-off decisions are made. You’ll then examine how making decisions using the affect heuristic, more commonly known as a “gut feeling,” can lead to unnecessary technical debt, followed by some techniques for combating your vulnerability to this trap. Reducing your organization’s level of technical debt is not easy. Taming Your Dragon will show you how to implement a technical debt management program. You will: Review a new paradigm based on technical debt being a combination of trade-off problems and system problems Understand the many ways that technical debt adversely affects an organization’s ability to deliver IT change Create an effective process for addressing technical debt See why analogies are important .

Contents:

Part 1: Exploring Technical Debt

Chapter 1 What is technical debt?

Chapter 2: Why you need to address technical debt

Chapter 3: Why has technical debt proved so resistant to solutions?

Part 2: Understanding the Technical Debt Problem

Chapter 4: The broken analogy

Chapter 5: Technical debt as a trade-off problem

Chapter 6: Technical debt as a systems problem

Chapter 7: Technical debt as an economics problem

Chapter 8: Technical debt as a wicked problem

Chapter 9: Common technical debt anti-patterns

Part 3: Tackling Technical Debt

Chapter 10: Convincing everyone

Chapter 11: Modelling technical debt with system modelling tools

Chapter 12: A program to address technical debt

Chapter 13: Preliminary information gathering

Chapter 14: Workshops for problem understanding

Chapter 15: Additional information gathering

Chapter 16: Workshops for solution development

Chapter 17: Pilot solutions

Chapter 18: Rollout and stabilization

Appendix.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9798868802645

OCLC:

1450100780