Technical Debt: Not Just a Technical Problem
Technical debt has come around as being the keyword of the moment in the industry. It has probably come up in developer team conversations concerning legacy code, refactoring efforts, new feature...
View ArticleStrategizing Your Technical Debt: The Good, The Bad, and The Necessary
One of the great things about the technical debt metaphor is that it expanded the conversation on software entropy and complexity to include the business that software is used by and maintained for....
View ArticleThe Differences between Technical Debt and Financial Debt
Looking at technical debt in a negative light, as something that stands in the way of new features when it grows, equates it to a credit card. If you don’t make your payments each month, you are...
View ArticleSoftware and Code Quality in Automobile Safety-Critical Applications
In the evolution of technology, one of the major components of its trajectory is that it has become integrated in every possible product. For example, automobiles which used to be mechanical devices...
View ArticleA CFOs Guide To Leaving Technical Debt Behind
What can CFOs do to lead their company’s away from the mountains of technical debt? First it’s necessary to give a quick definition of bad business technology debt: it is the spending of resources and...
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How to Mitigate the Technology Gap and Manage Technical Debt
There are always trade offs to be made when you’re dealing with keeping your application portfolio up-to-date. You always have several options whether it be modernization through migration/refactoring...
View ArticleInnovating While Maintaining Stability: A Lesson From Technical Debt
A while ago we published a post on IDC prediction that the bi-modal IT approach is a recipe for disaster. There are different opinions on what works in software development: those who support the...
View ArticleTechnical Debt & Safety Critical Systems in Automobiles: The Road Ahead
Cars are no longer simple pieces of machinery but have evolved into highly integrated pieces of technology – with software embedded into all their critical systems. In 2017 4 out of 5 cars will be...
View ArticleCISQ to Develop Technical Debt Standard Measure
As we are quickly heading into the new year – the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) is working to develop a new measure for technical debt. CISQ has created standard measures for software...
View ArticleThe Pain Point of Technical Debt
Technical debt is at the top of developers pain points, and according to some this is due to a flurry of new development styles that have come into vogue. The software industry’s focus on rapid...
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