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Title = "Debt or Deliver? The Art of Choosing Refactoring Battles Wisely"
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Scope creep kills budgets and timelines.

Sometimes, the encroachment is due to circumstances beyond the development team's control, such as product owners pushing for products, re-prioritized priorities, and re-revised requirements. Other times, the pain is self-inflicted!

Have you ever wandered down the rabbit hole of refactoring regret? Here's a fix! There's a fix! Suddenly, everywhere, we're fixing a fix!

How far is too far? How big is too big?

Yes, we should leave the code better than we found it. Tackle the tech debt; CLEAN it up and DRY it out. However, now might not be the right time, and I'll tell you why as we use my handy decision tree and a few real-life examples to help you and your dev team fight creepy scope.
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Kansas City. Lead Dev. She/Her. Physicist. Mentor. Mom. A Manager of Mischief. Dangerous in the front; deadly in the back. Enabler of repeatable, scalable success.

Rhia Dixon is a technical architect and lead software developer for VML, a global brand and customer experience powerhouse agency headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. She provides logical, analytical, technical, and strategic direction to help internal and external development teams deliver high-quality web-based experiences.
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