The theory and practice of adaptive reuse

Abstract

For over fifteen years I have made my living by applying the tools and techniques of “adaptive reuse” to the software life cycle of large, complex business systems of all stripes. I am pleased to say that organizations employing adaptive reuse, commonly achieve order of magnitude reductions in the time and cost of their software projects, be they new or existing systems. I want to share with you some of what I have learned, ‘lessons from the real world,” as the sub-title of my book is called [1].