Beyond Legacy Code

Work

Paid developers must recognize their obligation to deliver lasting value to others and that simply doing as they’re told is insufficient to the task.

The intricacies of programming can compound when applied carelessly, creating a burden for programmers that’s nearly impossible to shed. Agile methods in general, and this book in particular, describe a way to work within an organization respecting this reality.

This book revisits practices that have been proven over and over for two decades to be both effective and still surprisingly difficult to adopt.

The phrase “Agile in name only” describes organizations that go through the motions prescribed in countless books and then reap little benefit. This book dissects the motions and the reasons ...