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In the world of software development, dealing with legacy code is often a necessary evil, especially for successful, fast-growing companies. But how do Agile teams tackle this challenge smartly and sell the idea of refactoring to the business?
Even if for some Agile and Scrum practitioners, checklists can have the bad reputations as being on the wrong side of the “Individuals and interactions over processes and tool ” Agile Manifesto preferred values, it doesn’t always mean that it contains “items you should always check”. They can be also considered as a good practice that allows to capitalize and share experience when they are used as guidelines to assess the different aspects of a situation.
Law firms have been experiencing a good run lately. Billing hours and rates have gone up, and many practices have achieved record revenues. According to the ABA Journal, quite a number of law firms saw an increase of 12.5% in revenue in 2024. That’s quite impressive in any industry.
“Agility” gets thrown around in business meetings so much that it’s practically lost all meaning. But some companies aren’t just talking about it. They’re actually doing it, and it’s working.
Balancing Agility and Discipline is a book written in 2004 by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. The fact that it is already on its 6th reprint tells something about its value. This is a very pragmatic book that tries to put in perspective agile and plan-driven software development approaches.
The problem with retrospectives is that the learnings identified often remain locally. And scaling agile seems to be the default answer. Let’s focus more on scaling improvement.
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