Technical Debt

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Analysis of Techdebt.org, the Open Database on Technical Debt

TechDebt.org is the first collaborative & open benchmarking dashboard on Technical Debt and Software Quality. The site provides you with several metrics...

0 replies - 3376 views - 04/26/13 by Armel Gouriou in Articles

Winging It: Going Live with Technical Debt

Every day across the world a Sprint ends somewhere. Every day, a team reviews what has been done, and what has not been done. And every day, a team will fudge...

0 replies - 2341 views - 04/26/13 by Ian Mitchell in Articles

Hacking Debt

The term technical debt describes the accumulated effect of short term decisions in a software development process. In order to meet a deadline, for...

0 replies - 2556 views - 04/25/13 by John Cook in Articles

Don’t Take the Technical Debt Metaphor Too Far

Because “technical debt” has the word “debt” in it, many people have decided that it makes sense to think and work with technical debt in monetary...

3 replies - 6051 views - 02/05/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Appsec and Technical Debt

Technical debt is a fact of life for anyone working in software development: work that needs to be done to make the system cleaner and simpler and cheaper...

0 replies - 1918 views - 01/31/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

Apache Hadoop: Decreasing Technical Debt through Refactoring

Technical Debt is worth nothing if no pragmatic action is taken into code, in order to control and tackle it. To illustrate the capability to automatically...

2 replies - 3784 views - 01/23/13 by Michael Muller in Articles

On Technical Debt: An Interview with Philippe Kruchten

Let's continue our serie of interviews with people who had and continue having major influence on the definition of technical debt and its implementation in...

1 replies - 3012 views - 01/12/13 by Michael Muller in Articles

How OpenKM's Technical Debt decreased by 49% through Code Refactoring

Technical Debt is worth nothing if no pragmatic action is taken into code, in order to control and tackle it. To ilustrate the Scertify's capability to...

0 replies - 3189 views - 11/13/12 by Michael Muller in Articles

Interview with Israel Gat on Technical Debt

Israel Gat, director of Cutter Consortium's Agile Product & Project Management practice, shares his thoughts on how technical debt can affect...

0 replies - 1415 views - 11/05/12 by Michael Muller in Articles

Technical Debt: Making the Case

Technical Debt in programming is a topic for the ages. It tends to permeate round table conversations and almost pre-dates physical...

0 replies - 5208 views - 09/20/12 by Zac Gery in Articles

Make Technical Debt Explicit

This is a rehash of a topic I posted about back in 2008 but it is just as relevant today.  When you work towards a release or some other looming milestone....

2 replies - 9471 views - 08/07/12 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles

My take on Utility and Strategic software

Recently, Jez Humble examined the Utility/Strategic dichotomy defined by Martin Fowler, to find out where the continuous delivery concept applies best. Here is...

0 replies - 2684 views - 06/18/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Software Development Metrics that Matter

As an industry we do a surprisingly poor job of measuring the work that we do and how well we do it. Outside of a relatively small number of organizations...

1 replies - 12982 views - 05/21/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Technical Debt: How Much is it Really Costing You?

The idea behind the technical debt metaphor is that there is a cost to taking short cuts (intentional technical debt) or making mistakes (unintentional...

2 replies - 10785 views - 02/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Is it ok to have technical debt?

Technical debt and design debt are synonymous, neologistic metaphors referring to the eventual consequences of slapdash software architecture and hasty...

1 replies - 4265 views - 10/28/11 by Dror Helper in Articles