Executive Update

Technical Debt Assessment: A Case of Simultaneous Improvement at Three Levels

Posted May 21, 2010 | Technology |

The resignation of Intrigue's CTO six weeks before v1.0 of its JavaJoe product was scheduled to ship caused quite a few eyebrows to be raised. 1 While the resigning CTO indicated he was leaving to pursue an opportunity he could not afford to miss, the timing of his resignation gave rise to concerns about the readiness (or lack of it) of JavaJoe to be released as an enterprise application.

About The Author
Israel Gat
Dr. Israel Gat is an expert in Agile and Lean methods, devops, software governance, technical debt and technical due diligence. He served as Cutter Fellow and the Director of the Agile Product Management & Software Engineering Excellence practice from 2008 until 2015, and now splits his time between consulting and writing. Dr. Gat has received many accolades from clients, such as “His approach is the only one I’ve found that actually works… Read More
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