Software Excellence in Large Orgs through Technical Coaching : Emily Bache

How do you ensure Software Excellence? Code that is well-designed and easy to understand is cheaper to extend and modify - so you can deliver more value, sooner. Many organizations struggle with older codebases that use outdated designs and have too much cruft. The recent boom in AI coding assistants shows a great deal of promise for helping developers to write new code but these tools perform poorly at refactoring and enhancing existing code. How can we ensure developers have the skills they need to remove cruft safely and to develop new features with high quality?