Community Showcase – The Surprising Similarities Between Renovating your House and your Code Base

  • Learn how code and buildings differ in structure, but renovating each reveals surprising parallels—especially when dealing with legacy systems and old plasterboard alike.
  • Drawing on personal experience renovating both a house and a codebase, this session uses vivid, relatable analogies to demystify legacy code work.
  • Gain practical, memorable strategies for tackling code renovation—no sledgehammer required.
  • Explore how tools like Quality Views and CodeCharta can help map large codebases, surface architectural risks, and support meaningful conversations with non-technical stakeholders.

Richard Gross, Head of Software Archeology, MaibornWolff