Paying Down the Interest on your IT Technical Debt — CAST
Dr. Bill Curtis – Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist with CAST – lays out the “Technical Debt Management Cycle”, a 7-step process for analyzing and measuring Software Debt so you can relate...
View ArticleDr. Dobb’s Interview with Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham is known for the creation of the first Wiki, Wikipedia’s policies, OO Design, CoffeeScript, and Perl. He is also known for coining the metaphor “Technical Debt” back in 1992. This year,...
View ArticleTechnical Debt – A Quick Overview
What is Technical Debt? Technical Debt, also known as Software Debt, is a metaphor that highlights the compromises made by IT organizations between short-term gains of getting software out the door...
View ArticleManaging Technical Debt Workshop 2012
How can we manage Technical Debt proactively? What can IT organizations do in order to visualize the causes of their technical debt and put into place payback strategies? These were the two major...
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“IT Organizations Have Far Too Much Technical Debt”
Dr. Bill Curtis, Senior VP and Chief Scientist at CAST, explains in this interview that we need to measure the structural quality of business applications and incorporate Technical Debt demands in...
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Time to Start Estimating Technical Debt
Last week IEEE Software published a special edition for their Nov/Dec issue, dedicated to Technical Debt! My colleagues and I at CAST Research Labs put together an article which was featured in the...
View ArticleTechnical Debt for the Businessman
The great thing about the term Technical Debt is that it’s easily understood by all stakeholders in a company. For those that do not work in IT, the association of “debt” with the “technical” remains...
View ArticleIs DevOps Good or Bad for Technical Debt Reduction?
Continuous delivery and deployment pipelines force the clean-up of inconsistencies and holes in deployment through consistent automation. It also allows for work to happen between development, test,...
View ArticleImproving Software Quality to Avoid System Failure
In 2015 there was a major slew of headlines dedicated to software failures at major companies (US Airlines, Wall Street Journal, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Royal Bank of Scotland to name a...
View ArticleBalancing Legacy Systems and the need to Modernize
A new generation of IT professionals has been faced with the challenge of delivering agile and digitally enabled products, all the while maintaining legacy systems that many systems still rely on. We...
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