Managing Software Debt: Building for Inevitable Change

Acknowledgments

I would first like to acknowledge content contributions from Brent Barton, Earl Everett, and Timothy Fitz. Brent helped review the book thoroughly and then edited the Introduction so that it pulled together themes in the book much better. Earl Everett took a photograph in the Redwoods that led to the one that adorns the front cover. Earl also wrote a wonderful foreword that aligns this image with the contents of the book. Timothy Fitz allowed for re-creating parts of his “Continuous Deployment” blog in Chapter 6 of the book.

Next, I would like to thank those people who provided significant reviews for parts of the book. Brad Appleton not only was a technical reviewer but also discussed particular aspects of his review via email ...