There are lots of strategies for and discussions around dealing with huge behemoth legacy apps, but what about the people who wrote, maintain, and use them? What happens when the original "mess maker" is still at the organization where this code lives? What happens if she is your boss? How do you deal with the chaos of legacy code in an organization that still has the chaos of legacy People, Policy, and Work-Flow? This talk will discuss strategies to deal with people in the environment of legacy code. No matter how bad or good your code is, your problem is always with people. Let's talk about how to deal with them!

2. How Does Legacy Code Happen? http://www.typemock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/legacy-code.jpg

3. Evil Developers? http://media.photobucket.com/image/evil%20developer/mara_100/th_EvilDeveloper.jpg

4. Sinister Management? http://gearcrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dr-evil.jpg

5. No! It's Both! http://rlv.zcache.com/stuff4dudes_tee_people_problems_black_tshirt-p235996336469109302z70ez_210.jpg

6. Common Problems http://www.datarecoveryengland.com/img/faqs.jpg

7. Inexperience http://scruffylookingcatherder.com/Images/AssumedApplicability_F962/BabyDeveloper.png

8. Attitude http://images.betterphoto.com/0019/0412270807021babyhat1_copysig.jpg

9. Lone Wolf

10. COMMUNICATION http://pmtips.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/direct_communication_marketing.jpg

11. Understand The Problem http://learnfrenchontheinternet.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Learn-French-Online2.jpg

13. Flay

14. Reek

15. Roodi

16. Rcov

17. Explain The Problem http://flvrd.com/pic/no-time-to-explain/

18. FIX The Problem http://tosynolu.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f5f4a92c970b0148c7d578f9970c-800wi

19. Educate http://rboablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Social.jpg

20. Agile http://practicalanalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/agile.jpg

21. Hang In There! http://obscureinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/Perseverance-Animal-Motivational-Poster.jpg

22. How To Avoid Legacy Code?

23. How To Avoid The Legacy Environment?

24. Questions http://jijosunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/questions-to-ask-yourself.jpg

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