Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Staff Consultant Brian Hughes discusses why it's important to face the unknown of legacy software systems. The "there be dragons" aspect of ambiguous legacy applications includes complexity and risk. But there are healing salve approaches that can ease the way.

When it comes to working with legacy software, our secret is that we embrace and actually love facing the unknown, ambiguous, and complex.

This was part of a wider-ranging conversation on legacy modernization. Check out the playlist here for additional clips from the conversation, plus seminal Test Double legacy talks and helpful screencasts: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-NoIr_UR3KX8X-ZSZ7OeKkx9Co3HhOce&si=orgumxvnNAh2miqr