Ep. 86: Working with legacy systems

Dave Sharrock and Peter Maddison discuss the challenges of implementing Agile practices when working with a complex legacy system with a monolithic architecture. They stress the importance of working out how to incrementally deliver value and describe some of the patterns and strategies you might take.

This week's takeaways:

• Understanding the end-to-end system needs and treating the problem space correctly
• Making small incremental changes to systems can be life-changing and empowering for teams
• Enabling teams to make small changes should be the goal
• The approach to achieving this goal will depend on the systems being worked with and how they need to evolve

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