Tech debt and legacy modernization
Your past is billing your future
Tech debt is the work every team knows it should do and rarely has time for. Give Descant the refactors, dependency upgrades and legacy modernization you want carried through, and it breaks the work into manageable issues and coordinates their dependencies.
Behavior people depend on
Production software still has to meet the requirements, preserve the behavior people depend on, and come with evidence appropriate to the change.
Discoveries become visible work
When it discovers valuable work outside the current assignment, it creates a separate issue. The current change stays focused, and the discovery becomes visible work the team can prioritize.
Quality with machinery behind it
Structured evidence and software-enforced checks carry the engineering standard through implementation, verification and independent review. Claimed fixes are checked against the resulting changes, and unverified claims remain visible to review.
Your checks and merge rules stay in force
Issues, branches, pull requests, reviews and required checks remain in GitHub. Enable automatic merging for approved pull requests, or keep the final merge with a person.
Start with an issue worth solving
Give Descant a real piece of work. Inspect the code, review the result and see what delivering it cost.