Art of Software Reuse

Systematic Reuse Success Factor #13 – Constantly Revisit Assumptions

It is natural to get comfortable, perhaps too comfortable, with the state of your codebase. After all, it works and is probably meeting tangible business needs. However, if your team has to get the full value out of it – the fair and ongoing re

5 Questions To Increase Systematic Reuse Effectiveness

Here are five questions to ask your teams to increase reuse effectiveness when evaluating a functional requirement: Is a requirement already met within the application or platform or is this the first time? If the capability already exists, does the

Refactor Code Often, Continuously, Every Iteration

Refactoring is a way to improve code quality over time using incremental set of improvements – the idea is to increase the ability to make changes safer and faster and is not meant to deliver new functionality per se. For systematic reuse to su