The Product Owner's Guide To Escaping Legacy - E-book - ePub

Legacy is everywhere.  From 30-year-old mainframe systems to a startup's one-year-old app that was rushed to market. In the software industry, it is more common to start projects re-building existing systems than building something new. When you work with a legacy system you are faced with many challenges. Releases and testing are slow and costly. There's an ever-growing amount of defects. There are plans from engineering to 'refactor'.
Or even to completely rewrite the system, and in the meantime you can't get any new functionality implemented... But it does not have to be that way!  In this book, I explain how you, as a product owner, product manager or anyone else in a non-technical role, can take back control of your legacy systems without stopping new development. This book describes a simple and iterative process to help you break down the complexity of the system and provides the tools needed to get the whole system under control.