Were losing tens of billions of dollars a year on broken software and great new ideas such as agile development and Scrum dont always pay off. But theres hope. The nine software development practices in Beyond Legacy Code are designed to solve the problems facing our industry. Discover why these practices work not just how they work and dramatically increase the quality and maintainability of any software project. These nine practices could save the software industry. Beyond Legacy Code is filled with practical handson advice and a commonsense exploration of why technical practices such as refactoring and testfirst development are critical to building maintainable software. Discover how to avoid the pitfalls teams encounter when adopting these practices and how to dramatically reduce the risk associated with building softwarerealizing significant savings in both the short and long term. With a deeper understanding of the principles behind the practices youll build software thats easier and less costly to maintain and extend. By adopting these nine key technical practices youll learn to say what why and for whom before how build in small batches integrate continuously collaborate create CLEAN code write the test first specify behaviors with tests implement the design last and refactor legacy code. Software developers will find handson pragmatic advice for writing higher quality more maintainable and bugfree code. Managers customers and product owners will gain deeper insight into vital processes. By moving beyond the oldfashioned procedural thinking of the Industrial Revolution and working together to embrace standards and practices that will advance software development we can turn the legacy code crisis into a true Information Revolution.