I would like to broaden the conversation around technical debt to include the challenges of keeping up with software vendors’ lifecycles. Such vendor-driven technical debt requires the continual attention of CIOs and technology executives, who need to balance limited budgets to cope with technical debt. In this article, we will examine aspects of the problem and evaluate some of the techniques to address and repay technical debt.
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Vendor-Driven Technical Debt: Why It Matters and What to Do About It
By Mohan Babu K
Posted March 20, 2016 in Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence Cutter Business Technology Journal

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