Tag: software maintenance

How is technical debt affecting your compound interest with your customers?

How is technical debt affecting your compound interest with your customers?

Jean-Patrick Ascenci

Mar 27, 2018

Technical Debt for Continuous Innovation: Strategies to Avoid

Strategies to fix technical debt is a topic that’s not going unnoticed this year.

Mar 9, 2018

Technical Debt The Right Way

A distinction that we always try to make in our posts is that there is both good and bad technical debt. This is similar to how there are ways in which financial debt can be used to strategically help a company

Jan 30, 2017

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

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 or by a sort of "transformative leap".

Nov 29, 2016

Technical Debt: What is it and What to do When You Have it?

Technical debt starts off from building fast and making a slew of decisions based on short-term needs that are detrimental to your products long-term stability and maintainability.

Oct 25, 2016

The "Why" of Technical Debt

Here, at On Technical Debt, we often discuss the difficulties of communicating technical debt to business stakeholders, the consequences that arise from it, and the ways to about paying it back - but in this post we are going to focus on why it is there to begin with.

Oct 4, 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

Software 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.

Jun 27, 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

A CFO's Guide to Technical Debt

A CFO's job is to form a company's investment strategy, and one critical area of investment in any organization is technology.

Apr 13, 2016

The Relationship Between Incident Management and Technical Debt

A relationship that is often overlooked in software development and maintenance is the one between incidents and technical debt.

Mar 23, 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

At the Intersection of Technical Debt and Software Maintenance Costs

Arlene Minkiewicz, Chief Scientist at Price Systems, recently presented on the issues relating to technical debt and software maintenance.

Mar 8, 2016

Technical Debt and Reverse Grind: How to Manage it

It is common practice for a developer to make a quick fix in a software project and to then move onto the next shiny new feature.

Mar 2, 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 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