Sally Lait: Confidence Is the Real Metric

About this episode

Sally Lait joins Robby to explore why confidence might be the most important signal of software maintainability.

Sally Lait joins Robby to explore why confidence might be the most important signal of software maintainability. They dig into the cultural dynamics behind legacy systems, why technical debt becomes a people problem, and how teams can move forward without dismissing the work that got them here.

People in this episode

Host: Robby Russell

Guest: Sally Lait

Topics covered

• software maintainability
• confidence
• technical debt
• legacy systems
• cultural dynamics

Keywords

• confidence
• software maintainability
• technical debt
• legacy systems
• cultural dynamics

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