This paper presents a solution for saving large systems from increasing entropy. The solution is proven on a large middleware platform giving good results. The method’s objective is to rework the system so that reengineering investments pays off. Reaching agile practices is the methods basis. In order to reach the objective the method cynically relies on measurements to find unwanted characteristics of the system. Subjective opinions due to ownership and politics are ignored in the method. An extensive open source tool, the Cosmos Radar, is given to the community to make these measurements. Various symptoms and measurements are identified and approaches to solutions are discussed.
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Kvam, K., Bakkelund, D., & Lie, R. (2004). Cynical reengineering. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3092, pp. 130–138). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24853-8_15
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