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Technical Debt: The Continued Burden on Software Innovation

3 | 2016
In This Issue:
  • Overview
  • Technical Debt: The Continued Burden on Software Innovation — Opening Statement
  • Technical Debt: It's Not the Real Problem
  • Using Technical Debt to Make Good Decisions
  • Managing Technical Debt with the SQALE Method
  • The Psychology and Politics of Technical Debt: How We Incur Technical Debt and Why Retiring It Is So Difficult
  • Addressing the Hidden Obstacles to Innovation and Digital Disruption
  • Vendor-Driven Technical Debt: Why It Matters and What to Do About It

 

A major portion of technical debt — if not the vast majority — seems to spring from a very well-understood, well-identified source: time pressures. Not only do time pressures compel developers to cut corners, but they become the chief obstacle to fixing the code.

Tom Grant
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