Kill It with Fire

5 Building and Protecting Momentum

This book mainly focuses on big projects. When I discuss upgrades, I’m not talking about running a package manager to install the latest versions of your dependencies. When I mention deprecations, I’m not talking about versioning your API. Much of the advice in this book will work regardless of project size, but it is primarily intended for big ones.

Chapter 3 covered developing strategy around the engineering challenge posed by your legacy system. In that chapter, I described the shape and nature of different types of approaches and how to look at such a challenge holistically. This chapter describes a similar approach from the organizational side: how to create a plan that builds momentum and keeps teams ...