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The techniques employed in Refactoring Databases might well achieve all that is implied in this article. However, I think that the approach as outlined is flawed in that it suggests that changes to the corporate data structure can be determined from within a computer system.
A change is only required within a computer system when the existing system does not meet a business need or a business need changes or a new business need occurs.
So all such needs are driven from outside the system. If the overall data/information structure of the enterprise does not meet this new need then it must be amended. If that part of the structure supported by the computer system is amended then the system must be amended to make it support the structure.
So change is always driven by the information needs of the business. Systems must change to support the business. They are not the business, they do not drive change.
John,
I don't see any conflict here; the users request a feature, the developers need to change the system in order to support the new feature. Refactoring is driven by change, and its goal is to reduce the cost of change.
John,
Did you watched the presentation? What the presenter proposing are methods to cope with changes that are driven by business needs.
I understand your concern if you are talking about refactoring per se, without any external events that triggers it, just for the sake of refactoring.
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
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