Scrum Agile Project Management

Refactoring Legacy Applications the Right Way

July 13, 2026 0

If you have worked in a legacy codebase or ‘big ball of mud’, you know that it can make development unnecessarily slow, frustrating and costly. The solution, many developers would say, is to just rewrite the whole thing. But good luck getting every stakeholder to agree to such a costly and risky refactoring process.