Code Red - The Business Impact of Code Quality

Explore the critical business impact of code quality in this insightful conference talk from YOW! 2022. Delve into the concept of technical debt and its significant effects on developer productivity and software development. Learn how to visualize and quantify code complexity, and understand its direct correlation to business outcomes such as time-to-market and customer satisfaction. Discover novel code quality metrics and analysis techniques to prioritize system improvements, communicate quality trade-offs in terms of actual costs, and identify high-risk areas in your applications. Gain valuable insights on how to build a compelling business case for code quality, supported by real-world research and data. This perspective-changing presentation offers practical strategies to address technical debt, enhance code health, and ultimately improve overall software development processes.

Intro
What is technical debt?
Visualize technical debt & code complexity
Quantify the business impact of code quality
Does code quality matter?
Prioritize remediation to large amounts of red code
Resources
Outro