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+Title = "Debt or Deliver? The Art of Choosing Refactoring Battles Wisely"
+Type = "talk"
+Speakers = ["rhia-dixon"]
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+Scope creep kills budgets and timelines.
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+Sometimes, the encroachment is due to circumstances beyond the development team's control, such as product owners pushing for products, re-prioritized priorities, and re-revised requirements. Other times, the pain is self-inflicted!
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+Have you ever wandered down the rabbit hole of refactoring regret? Here's a fix! There's a fix! Suddenly, everywhere, we're fixing a fix!
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+How far is too far? How big is too big?
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+Yes, we should leave the code better than we found it. Tackle the tech debt; CLEAN it up and DRY it out. However, now might not be the right time, and I'll tell you why as we use my handy decision tree and a few real-life examples to help you and your dev team fight creepy scope.

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+Title = "Rhia Dixon"
+Twitter = "TheFakeRiRi"
+linkedin = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhiadixon/"
+image = "rhia-dixon.jpg"
+type = "speaker"
+linktitle = "rhia-dixon"
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+Kansas City. Lead Dev. She/Her. Physicist. Mentor. Mom. A Manager of Mischief. Dangerous in the front; deadly in the back. Enabler of repeatable, scalable success.
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+Rhia Dixon is a technical architect and lead software developer for VML, a global brand and customer experience powerhouse agency headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. She provides logical, analytical, technical, and strategic direction to help internal and external development teams deliver high-quality web-based experiences.

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