Prioritize technical debt as if time and money matter

Hosted by CodeScene.

Dive into the complexities of managing technical debt in large-scale software systems with our insightful, hands-on workshop on the 26th of March, presented in collaboration with CodeScene. This session is designed for technical leaders, software architects, engineering managers, and senior developers who face the challenging balance between innovation, feature delivery and maintenance in their daily work.

Understanding the challenge

Prioritizing technical debt is a hard problem as modern systems might have millions of lines of code and multiple development teams — no one has a holistic overview. In addition, there’s always a trade-off between improving existing code versus adding new features so we need to use our time wisely.

What if we could mine the collective intelligence of all contributing programmers and start making decisions based on information from how the organization actually works with the code?

What this workshop offers

In this workshop, you’ll learn how easily obtained version-control data lets you uncover the behavior and patterns of the development organization. This language-neutral approach lets you prioritize the parts of your system that benefit the most from improvements so that you can balance short- and long-term goals guided by data. In this session, you’ll learn:

• To prioritize technical debt in large-scale systems
• Balance the trade-off between improving existing code versus adding new features
• Visualize long time trends in technical debt
• Take a data-driven approach to technical debt.

During the workshop, you get access to CodeScene – a behavioral code analysis tool that automates the analyses – which we use for practical exercises. We’ll do the exercises on real-world codebases in Java, C#, JavaScript and more to discover real issues.

Participants are also encouraged to take this opportunity to analyze their own codebase to get actionable take-away information.

Prerequisites

Bring your curiosity and your laptop. No prior preparation is required, though attendees will receive the workshop slides the day before for an optimal learning experience.