The Code Christmas Tree: Selling the Investment for Technical Debt
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Selling The Investment To Pay Down Technical Debt The Code Christmas Tree Mike Kaiser @kaisermike Guy Royse @guyroyse
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How Michael Kaiser and I convinced our business partners to invest in paying down technical debt with large red and green charts.
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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@[email protected]
Guy Royse@guyroyse
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
