The latest articles on DEV Community by Luan Fonseca (@luanfonceca). https://dev.to/luanfonceca https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1341%2F1490875.jpeg https://dev.to/luanfonceca en Luan Fonseca Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:38:06 +0000 https://dev.to/luanfonceca/awesome-technical-debt-2211 https://dev.to/luanfonceca/awesome-technical-debt-2211 <p>Follow the up-to-date list: <a href="https://github.com/labcodes/awesome-technical-debt" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/labcodes/awesome-technical-debt</a></p> <h1> Awesome Technical Debt <a href="https://awesome.re" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fawesome.re%2Fbadge.svg" alt="Awesome"></a> </h1> <blockquote> <p>A curated list of Technical Debt talks, articles and books.</p> </blockquote> <h2> Contents </h2> <ul> <li>Talks</li> <li>Articles</li> <li>Books</li> </ul> <h2> Talks </h2> <p>Talks recorded in video related to Technical Debt</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE" rel="noopener noreferrer">Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham </a> - Ward Cunningham reflects on the history, motivation and common misunderstanding of the "debt metaphor" as motivation for refactoring.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hL6g1aTGvo" rel="noopener noreferrer">Escaping the Technical Debt Cycle - Michael Feathers</a> - Most teams have some amount of technical debt. Others are crushed by it. It really shouldn’t be this way. For decades we’ve been aware of good development practice. We know the things that we should do to avoid incurring technical debt and start paying it back. Clearly, something else is going on.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXyNZYDO07Q" rel="noopener noreferrer">Technical debt isn't technical - Einar W. Høst </a> - Technical debt is not primarily caused by incompetent developers, architecture astronauts, unrealistic UX people or even stupid project managers. What causes it then? It is a symptom of weak abstractions, which stems from insufficient understanding and modelling of the problem domain. </li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HecgbghFTk" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Economics of Software Design - J.B. Rainsberger</a> - Every month, someone new asks me the question, "How do I convince my manager to let me refactor?" While it's true that a manager shouldn't constrain the programmer's plans to deliver high-quality code, the fact remains that some organisations allow their managers to assert this level of micro-control. In this talk I outline a set of models for justifying evolutionary design with basic economic concepts that relate directly to delivering, planning, and funding software projects</li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0O1VVqRSK0" rel="noopener noreferrer">Demanding Professionalism in Software Development - Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)</a> - Robert C. Martin explains in his own unique style why professionalism is so important for software development teams and their managers. This event has been recorded live at an event co-hosted by Agile Quebec City and Elapse Technologies in Septembre 2012.</li> </ul> <h2> Articles </h2> <p>Articles and blogposts related to Technical Debt.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://wiki.c2.com/?WardExplainsDebtMetaphor" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ward Explains Debt Metaphor - Ward Cunningham</a></li> <li><a href="https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">TechnicalDebt - Martin Fowler</a></li> <li><a href="https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">TechnicalDebtQuadrant - Martin Fowler</a></li> <li><a href="https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost? - Martin Fowler</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.toptal.com/finance/part-time-cfos/technical-debt" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Financial Implications of Technical Debt - Erik Frederick</a></li> <li><a href="https://css-tricks.com/defining-and-dealing-with-technical-debt/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Defining and Dealing with Technical Debt - Geoff Graham</a></li> <li><a href="https://daedtech.com/human-cost-tech-debt/" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Human Cost of Tech Debt - Erik Dietrich</a></li> <li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/unclebobconsultingllc/a-mess-is-not-a-technical-debt" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Mess is not a Technical Debt - Uncle Bob</a></li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@joaomilho/festina-lente-e29070811b84" rel="noopener noreferrer">Technical debt 101 - Maiz Lulkin</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.infoq.com/articles/pragmatic-technical-debt/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pragmatic Technical Debt Management - Ganesh Samarthyam, Girish Suryanarayana and Tushar Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="https://mozaicworks.com/blog/what-is-evolutionary-design/" rel="noopener noreferrer">What is Evolutionary Design? - Adi Bolboaca</a></li> </ul> <h2> Books </h2> <p>Books related to Technical Debt.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0128013974" rel="noopener noreferrer">Refactoring for Software Design Smells - Ganesh Samarthyam, Girish Suryanarayana and Tushar Sharma</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052" rel="noopener noreferrer">Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers</a></li> </ul> <h2> Contribute </h2> <p>Contributions welcome! Read the <a href="https://github.com/labcodes/awesome-technical-debt/blob/master/contributing.md" rel="noopener noreferrer">contribution guidelines</a> first.</p> agile architecture codequality