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by joshyeager 4479 days ago
Reply to bcobb: I agree that Working Effectively with Legacy Code is great. It's been as revolutionary for our team as The Art of Agile Development.

The big piece that we're missing is how to apply agile practices consistently when our velocity varies so significantly because of legacy code. Feathers' book gave us a long-term path to getting out of that issue, but we're struggling with the planning and communication side of things in the meantime.