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Expert Publications on Software Modernization

Gain access to industry-leading research, economic analyses, and practical guidance directly from Silverthread’s thought leaders.

Recent Publications

1. Organizing “spaghetti” software so it can be easily modified
   Zach Winn
   Software Modernization

2. Technical Debt: The Cost of Doing Nothing
   Austin Page
   Software Modernization

3. Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect Related Activity
   Alan MacCormack & Dan Sturtevant
   Software Inventory & Assessment
   Software Risk & Readiness
   Key Business Outcomes
   Software Modernization

4. Architecting Out Software Intellectual Property Lock-In: A Method to Advance the Efficacy of BPP
   Chris Berardi
   Software Modernization

5. Empirical Analysis of Software Refactoring Motivation and Effects
   Sean Gilliland
   Software Modernization

6. Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
   Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak
   Software Inventory & Assessment
   Key Business Outcomes

7. Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis
   Roert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alam MacCormack, David Dreyfus
   Software Inventory & Assessment

8. Visualizing and Measuring the Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory Biopharma Case
   Roert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alam MacCormack, David Dreyfus
   Software Inventory & Assessment

9. How Maintainable is the Firefox Codebase
   Ali Almossawi
   Software Quality & Performance

10. System Design and the Cost of Architectural Complexity
    Dan Sturtevant
    Software Modernization

11. The Impact of Software Design Structure on Product Maintenance Costs and Measurement of Economic Benefits of Product Redesign
    Andrei Akaikine
    Software Modernization

12. Economics of Iterative Software Development, The: Steering Toward Better Business Results
    Walker Royce
    Software Risk & Readiness
    Key Business Outcomes

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