Retrospective
Something’s Wrong with the way most software is built and maintained. In a typical Waterfall environment we wait until the very end to see if the thing is going to work, and when bugs present themselves, they’re difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive to track down and fix.
In this chapter, we discovered…
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Most people have little knowledge of how software is constructed and how software becomes legacy code—software that’s difficult and expensive to work with—and how to prevent it from happening.
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Batching features into releases is inefficient.
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Traditional Waterfall processes lead to the creation and propagation of legacy code.
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Software engineering hasn’t yet established its core principles or a common body of knowledge ...
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