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The Mikado Method , Ola Ellnestam
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The Mikado Method
Ellenstam • Brolund
The game “pick-up sticks” is a good metaphor for the Mikado Method. You eliminate “technical debt” — the legacy problems embedded in nearly every software system — by following a set of easy-to-implement rules. You carefully extract each intertwined dependency until you expose the central issue, without collapsing the project.
The Mikado Method presents a pragmatic process to plan and perform nontrivial technical improvements on an existing software system. The book helps you practice a step-by-step system for identifying the scope and nature of your technical debt, mapping the key dependencies, and determining a safe way to approach the “Mikado” — your goal. A natural by-product of this process is the Mikado Graph, a roadmap that reflects deep understanding of how your system works.
What's Inside
• Understand your technical debt
• Surface the dependencies in legacy systems
• Isolate and resolve core concerns while creating minimal disruption
• Create a roadmap for your changes
This book builds on agile processes such as refactoring, TDD, and rapid feedback. It requires no special hardware or software and can be practiced by both small and large teams.
Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund are developers, coaches, and team leaders. They developed the Mikado Method in response to years of experience resolving technical debt in complex legacy systems.
To download their free eBook in PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats, owners of this book should visit manning.com/TheMikadoMethod
“Enables you to deal with unavoidable complexities in manageable pieces.”
— From the Foreword by Tom Poppendieck
Author of The Lean Mindset
“If you deal with legacy code and your technical debt is increasing, read this book.”
— Ecil Teodoro, IBM
“An engaging and authoritative source of information and best practices that you need to succeed.”
— Alex Garrett
Hot Towel Consulting, LLC
“A great guide to safer refactoring.”
— Mark Sponsler, SintecMedia
Technical debt is best understood as the work remaining before a job can be considered complete. It is one of the worst bottlenecks when it comes to creating value with software and the ability to deal with it is often the difference between a great business and closing the shop. The Mikado Method is a process which systematically eliminates technical debt. It gets its name from a simple game known as "pick-up sticks." Starting with a jumbled pile of sticks, the goal is to remove the Mikado, or Emperor, stick without disturbing the others. Players carefully remove sticks one at a time, leaving the rest of the heap intact, slowly exposing the Mikado. The game is a great metaphor for eliminating technical debt—carefully extracting each intertwined dependency until successfully resolving the central issue.
The Mikado Method describes a pragmatic and straightforward method to plan and perform non-trivial technical improvements on an existing software system. Step by step, readers will identify the scope and nature of technical debt, map the key dependencies, and determine the safest way to approach the "Mikado"—the goal. A natural byproduct of this process is the Mikado Graph, a minimalistic, relevant, just-in-time roadmap and information radiator that reflects deep understanding of how the system works.
RETAIL SELLING POINTS
Written by the creators of the Mikado Method
Step-by-step guide with hands on examples
Points out sources of technical debts
AUDIENCE
This book is for software developers with a basic understanding of Java or familiarity with a C-like language. No previous experience with the Mikado Method is necessary.
ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
The Mikado Method offers a way to improve software systems without breaking them or going through long periods of having a half functioning system.
Gewicht
0,443 Kg
Uit jaar:
2014
Uitvoering:
Paperback
Drukkerij
in the United States of America
Uitgever(Label):
Manning Publications, 20 Baldwin Road Shelter Island, NY 11964
Aantal pagina's
217
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