About this episode

Rein Henrichs discusses the importance of understanding systems before addressing maintenance in coding.

Most teams treat maintenance like a coding problem. Rein Henrichs argues the real work starts much earlier… in how teams understand the system in the first place.

People in this episode

Host: Robby Russell

Guest: Rein Henrichs

Topics covered

• maintenance
• coding
• team dynamics
• system understanding
• software development

Keywords

• maintenance
• coding problems
• team understanding
• software systems
• development practices

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