A Crystal Ball to Prioritize Technical Debt • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2017

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Berlin 2017 http://gotober.com Adam Tornhill - Founder and CTO at Empear @adamtornhill2546 ABSTRACT The technical debt metaphor has taken the software world with storm. No wonder, since software projects have their fair share of challenges. Most organizations find it hard to prioritize and repay their technical debt. The main reason is due to the scale of modern systems with million lines of code and multiple development teams; No one has a holistic overview. So what if we could mine the collective intelligence of [...] TIMECODES 0:00 Introduction 0:31 Questioning Technical Debt 5:53 Collective Intelligence Uncover Evolutionary Patterns In A System 11:46 Case Study: The .NET Core Runtime 13:49 Hotspots X-Ray 14:55 Normalization of Deviance 19:44 Hotspots Summary 21:39 Specify Your Logical Components 24:32 Temporal Coupling 29:56 The Microservices Shotgun Surgery Pattern 33:20 Process Loss 36:14 Measure Team Coordination The Diffusion of Responsibility 38:16 Measuring Conway's Law 39:28 The Perils of Feature Teams Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotober.com/2017/sessions/202 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Adam Tornhill • Software Design X-Rays • https://amzn.to/3DEeEnI Adam Tornhill • Your Code as a Crime Scene • https://amzn.to/3FI5E2V Adam Tornhill • Lisp for the Web • https://leanpub.com/lispweb Adam Tornhill • Patterns in C • https://leanpub.com/patternsinc https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #TechnicalDebt #TechDebt #AdamTornhill Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1