title: How to overcome the anti-pattern "Big Ball of Mud"?
body: <p>What causes a computer program to turn into a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%5Fball%5Fof%5Fmud" rel="noreferrer">Big Ball of Mud</a>?  Is it possible to recover from this anti-pattern?  Are there proven refactoring methods that can be applied?</p>