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Expert Publications on Software Modernization

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Organizing “spaghetti” software so it can be easily modified

Zach Winn

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Technical Debt: The Cost of Doing Nothing

Austin Page

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Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect Related Activity

Alan MacCormack & Dan Sturtevant

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Architecting Out Software Intellectual Property Lock-In: A Method to Advance the Efficacy of BPP

Chris Berardi

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Empirical Analysis of Software Refactoring Motivation and Effects

Sean Gilliland

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Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture

Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak

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Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Roert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alam MacCormack, David Dreyfus

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Visualizing and Measuring the Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory Biopharma Case

Roert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alam MacCormack, David Dreyfus

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How Maintainable is the Firefox Codebase

Ali Almossawi

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System Design and the Cost of Architectural Complexity

Dan Sturtevant

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The Impact of Software Design Structure on Product Maintenance Costs and Measurement of Economic Benefits of Product Redesign

Andrei Akaikine

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Economics of Iterative Software Development, The: Steering Toward Better Business Results

Walker Royce