My goal is not to slam you with 70 hours of video.

Instead, I want to give you tools to manage tech debt as clearly and concisely as possible, because I know your time is valuable.

    1. Introduction

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    2. How This Course Works

    3. Misconceptions about Technical Debt

    4. Critical Concept: Maintenance Load

    5. Critical Concept: Context Loss

    6. So what is tech debt, then?

    7. How fast does maintenance load rise?

    8. Practice Analyzing Maintenance Loads

    9. Critical Concept: Code Stewardship

    10. Code Stewardship Skill: Writing Discoverable Code

    11. Code Stewardship Skill: Writing Flexible Code

    12. Code Stewardship Skill: Documenting Code

    13. Code Stewardship Skill: Context Transfer

    14. An Expansive View of Code Stewardship

    15. Systemic Causes of High Maintenance Load Accrual

    16. How would you incentivize code stewardship?

    1. Why "Tech Debt Week" Doesn't Work

    2. Reflection: Code Renovations

    3. Gathering Clues About Your Maintenance Load

    4. Reflection: Existing Maintenance Load Priorities

    5. Prioritizing High Leverage Code Changes

    6. Priority Group 1: Feature Bloat

    7. Priority Group 2: Documented Holdups

    8. Priority Group 3: Addressing Abandoned Houses

    9. Priority Group 4: Strategic Code Flexibility

    10. Priority Group 5: Equipping Engineers to Suggest Streamlining Options

    1. Introducing: A Simulation Exercise!

    2. Ticket 1: Email Restaurant Recommendation to a Friend

    3. Ticket 2: Social Auth is Handle Dependent

    4. Ticket 3: Time Zone Adjustment

    5. Ticket 4: Functional Navigation

    6. Ticket 5: Object Oriented Restaurant Code

    7. Ticket 6: Case Sensitive API Endpoints

    8. What were YOUR Answers?

    9. Wrapping Up

    1. Tidying and Technical Debt: An Interview with Kent Beck (and Chelsea Troy)

Learn a system for addressing technical debt

  • $219.00
  • 36 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content
  • We'll begin with a specific definition of technical debt. Then we'll address how maintenance load accumulates and discuss how to slow the growth of maintenance load. We'll then move on to addressing existing maintenance load to get a team out from underwater fast.

What folks have said about the course:

  • "I binged the entire course in a day and can't wait to do it again with [my team]."

    Nate Parsons, Senior Quality Engineer at Planet

  • "Chelsea is an excellent instructor. I learned more from this short workshop than my entire graduate course about software maintenance."

    MO (Anonymized to avoid tacitly maligning the graduate program)

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    I'd love to hear from you about the course: you can email me at [email protected]!

Learn a system for addressing technical debt.

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