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JB Rainsberger is a consultant, coach, mentor and author, helping both teams and individual programmers learn high-productivity techniques for delivering software. He is a long term advocate of XP and author of JUnit Recipes


Synopsis:
Few forces limit your ability to deliver the way that legacy code does. Even if you do everything else well -- understand your market, design your product, communicate with your colleagues, test-drive every feature -- if you have to work with legacy code, then you will eventually have to pay back some random amount of time by both working around some parts of it and rescuing others. Even the decision when to work around it and when to rescue it will distract you from delivering new features. You need to practise working with legacy code, and what better way to practise than with a full day of coding and coaching with one of the most experienced developers in the world.