Refactoring, Agile Change Management and the Importance of the "Big Green Button"

Speaker: Alun Butler, Vice President, Corporate and Banking Technology, Morgan Stanley

Organiser: Dr Simon Scola

This talk covers the following:

• Defined
• Why it is? (not a maintenance technique)
• When to use it? (when you add functionality)
• What to sniff for? (code smells – I hate that switch)
• How to use it (some examples)?
• Refactoring Problems (databases – again)
• The relationship between refactoring and Agile Methodologies

• We took very rapid look at automated Control Versioning – another common XP practice. CVS is one of those rare problems with a technological solution
• (or is it?)
• Green buttons

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