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Refactoring in Product Teams with Andreas Creten

Legacy Code Rocks

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Are You Getting Rid of Dead Code?

I think measuring product usage is extremely important also for dealing with technical depth. So every time you're going to rewrite something from a, from a technical perspective, you need to question yourself if we actually need this code or not. And I have some anecdotes about that as well. They had a sidebar and it's actually a CRM system. It was used by a lot of web development agencies and stuff like that. But they also had lawyers as customers. The CPO wrote a letter to those lawyers telling them we're going to get rid of the feature and in the end, they were all fine with that. You can certainly weigh better with other functionality because you can't know what people

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