World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Confessions of a Software Archaeologist: What I Did Wrong in 10 Years of Restructuring Software

Refactoring legacy code is the easy part of software modernization. The true bottleneck is navigating the tangled web of human psychology and organizational politics.

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Planning multi-year restructures for legacy software systems

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Identifying core challenges in modern software development

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Strategies for modernizing and mitigating legacy system risks

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Managing technical debt in legacy web applications

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Building engineering cultures that support long-term software architecture

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Key takeaways for navigating software evolution and technical debt

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