Selling The Investment To Pay Down Technical Debt

The Code Christmas Tree

Mike Kaiser@kaisermike

Guy Royse@guyroyse

Mike Kaiser Guy Royse

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Lessons Learned

• Make it visible – location matters, size matters• Use charts to enable the conversation• Color can bring about different reactions• Non-developers can understand aspects of the

code if you present it graphically

Questions?Comments?

ContactMike Kaiser@kaisermikekaiserflyer@gmail.com

Guy Royse@guyroyse

guy@guyroyse.com

LinksBVMhttp://github.com/guyroyse/bvm or gem install bvm

Sonarhttp://sonarsource.org

Treemapper

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/3f3ed95e-26d8-4616-a06c-b609df29756f/default.aspx