Tag: Software Maintainability

Does the State of DevOps = The State of Software?

Can Agile and DevOps Solve Our Software Quality Woes?

Pete Pizzutillo

Mar 1, 2019

Contribute to CISQ's Technical Debt Remediation Survey

Last week we published a post about the Consortium for IT Software Quality's (CISQ) initiative to come up with a standard technical debt measure through a survey distributed to developers.

Jan 11, 2017

Technical 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.

Dec 27, 2016

Innovating While Maintaining Stability: A Lesson From Technical Debt

A while ago we published a post on IDC predictions 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 siloed approach of bi-modal IT, those who urge against this division between predicability and innovation, and others who say fast development is the only way. This debate is only just beginning so it's worth while expanding on the arguments surrounding it.

Nov 30, 2016

Is the Bimodal IT Approach an Invitation to Failure?

There's bad news ahead for organizations that focused on a bimodal IT approach. According to research firm IDC by 2019 80% of those firms will have accrued crippling amounts of technical debt leading to increased complexity, cost, and a hit to their reputation.

Nov 16, 2016

Stop Paying Back Technical Debt, Accumulate Technical Wealth

Remodeling software should be done in the same mindset under which we remodel a house: to make it last longer and run better. Companies should be invested in mending their code to be able to get more productivity out of it.

Sep 22, 2016

Detecting Software Vulnerabilities with Technical Debt

This is a great post from the Software Engineering Institute on early software defect detections with technical debt.

Aug 25, 2016

Integrating Innovation and Legacy Systems: Reducing Technical Debt in Digital Transformation

When it come to the struggles of undergoing digital transformation, many organizations are going about their digital transformation though a bimodal approach, and according to this post, this is unsustainable.

Aug 2, 2016

How to build code with Technical Excellence

Looking at the software industry as it stands, it would accurate to assume that most working in it don't know what technical excellence is

Jun 23, 2016

Building Your Software House with Big Data, Reliability, and Technical Debt

Software is like a house.How so?

May 13, 2016

Get a Grip on your Technical Debt

In simple terms, technical debt is the work that you've been putting off that is needed in order to complete a job.

Apr 22, 2016

Infrastructure as Code and Avoiding Technical Debt

This post presents an interesting mindset from which to build software: treating infrastructure as code so that the systems and devices which are used in software are treated as software themselves.

Mar 18, 2016

The Machine Learning Hype Dampened by Technical Debt

There has become a recent trend in discussing the benefits of machine learning - however, despite its recent popularity there are few large-scale systems that actually employ it in production.

Feb 29, 2016

Improving Software Quality to Avoid System Failure

In 2015 there was a major slew of headlines dedicated to software failures at major companie which led to a discussion of best practices for software development.

Feb 25, 2016

How Technical Debt Can Help You Be Innovative

Vision is a term often employed to describe leaders: i.e "they have vision" or "they are visionaries".

Feb 22, 2016

Technical Debt and Breaking Down "Tribal Speak"

In this great podcast from .Net Rocks! the discussion on how to handle technical debt takes an interesting turn towards the discrepancy in communication between different stakeholders on a software project.

Feb 5, 2016

How Innovation Debt Is Just As Damaging as Technical Debt

Often times in the development process large amounts of technical debt result in stalled innovation from a given team.

Feb 1, 2016

Maintaining Technical Debt and Team Morale in a Large System

In this post from InfoQ, Thomas Bradford explains his experience on working with a monolith java-based system that had improper test coverage and huge technical debt.

Jan 28, 2016

When You Should Start Paying Off Your Technical Debt

Much of what comes with being an entrepreneurial leader is knowing when to accept certain tradeoffs.

Jan 25, 2016

The Risks of Measuring Technical Debt

It has become a recent practice in organizations to measure technical debt in their software.

Jan 21, 2016