Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software

SEATTLE, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software, the first book by David Scott Bernstein, has been released by Pragmatic Bookshelf. Drawn from the author's decades of experience as a software developer, trainer, and consultant to some of the biggest players in the business, the book goes beyond the hands-on to examine in common-sense terms why technical practices are critical to building maintainable software—and what can go wrong when they're ignored.

"Beyond Legacy Code presents a fresh perspective on the modern software development process," wrote Stas Zvinyatskowsky, a senior principal software architect for Yahoo. "Engineers will find solutions to their day-to-day challenges. Non-engineers will gain an appreciation for the challenges and difficulties of making software."

While some of the content is technical in nature, much of it is described in a non-technical way. Perhaps for the first time, the importance of technical practices in enterprise software development is discussed in a way that non-developers can understand. This makes Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software valuable to a wide range of readers who are associated with the software industry including executives, managers, and staff members as well as customers and students.

Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software is an insider's view of a software industry in crisis, losing billions of dollars a year on broken software development processes. But that's just the beginning, and the majority of the book is centered on nine start-now software development practices designed to take us beyond legacy code to begin solving the endemic problems facing this crucial industry. Learn more at http://BeyondLegacyCode.com.  

David Scott Bernstein has shared his passion for building software with thousands of developers at hundreds of companies around the world including IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo. His firm, To Be Agile (http://ToBeAgile.com), helps teams adopt Agile programming practices such as test-first development, pair programming, and refactoring.

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