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9 Quick Tips to Reducing Technical Debt

Wrote earlier about the importance of refactoring and continuous alignment within the context of systematic reuse effectiveness. Reducing technical debt is an...

0 replies - 769 views - 06/16/13 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles

Agile, Technical Debt & Resign Patterns: Interview with Patroklos Papapetrou

An agile enthusiast who seeks excellence in software engineering. This is how Patroklos Papapetrou defines himself. Let's have a techdebt talk with...

0 replies - 1072 views - 06/14/13 by Michael Muller in Articles

10 Signs Services Are Accumulating Technical Debt

Your teams are busy building services and service enabled processes – great! – how do you know if these services are built at the appropriate level of...

0 replies - 5861 views - 06/13/13 by Vijay Narayanan in Articles

Technical Debt: In an Agile World

The phrase "agile development" has become common fare within the development community. As companies sought out new ways to innovate and optimize from within,...

0 replies - 3880 views - 05/26/13 by Zac Gery 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 - 6392 views - 02/05/13 by Jim Bird in Articles

The Mikado Method - Making Code Changes Less of an Impact

Kev McCabe - Mikado Method - Making Code Changes Less of an Impact from Lean Agile Scotland on Vimeo. The Mikado Method is a simple straight forward...

0 replies - 1901 views - 12/26/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Are Bugs Part of Technical Debt?

Everybody is talking about technical debt today: developers, testers, consultants, managers - even executives. But the more that people talk about...

0 replies - 2893 views - 12/18/12 by Jim Bird 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 - 1467 views - 11/05/12 by Michael Muller in Articles

Technical Debt: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

Here’s another example of why language matters, and how the words we choose matter so much. I tried to join the European Lean-Kanban tour, not in person,...

13 replies - 8520 views - 11/04/12 by Gil Zilberfeld 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 - 9806 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 - 2765 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 - 13493 views - 05/21/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Sometimes It’s Okay to Incur Technical Debt

Its time to admit that sometimes it’s okay to incur technical debt, particularly when it comes to getting it done. So many times, I’ve run into to...

7 replies - 6316 views - 02/19/12 by Geoffrey Papilion 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 - 10882 views - 02/15/12 by Jim Bird in Articles

Delving into Technical Debt

Free resources on technical debt are now available at cutter consortium:Many of the findings and the recommendations we make in Cutter technical debt...

0 replies - 3859 views - 11/01/11 by Israel Gat in News