Building Your Software House with Big Data, Reliability, and Technical Debt
Software is like a house. How so? According to Lev Lesokhin, senior vice president of strategy and analytics at CAST, a house has to be continuously maintained or else you may start to notice, as the...
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 ArticleStop Paying Back Technical Debt, Accumulate Technical Wealth
Remodelling 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...
View ArticleThe ‘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...
View ArticleTechnical 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. This can occur from...
View ArticleHow 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 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 ArticleContribute 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. The...
View ArticleTechnical 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...
View ArticleTechnical Debt for Continuous Innovation: Strategies to Avoid
Strategies to fix technical debt is a topic that’s not going unnoticed this year. Discovering technical debt is inevitable as organizations modernize legacy applications. Most important, is the...
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