Technical Debt
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Software Development
Letting Go Of Technical Debt
The term “technical debt” was first introduced by Ward Cunningham as a metaphor. It was in the early 90s, when…
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Software Development
Don’t waste time tracking technical debt
For the last couple of years we’ve been tracking technical debt in our development backlog. Adding debt payments to the…
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Agile
Transition to Agile, Large Technical Debt, Small Project
Many months ago, Rebecca asked an interesting question about technical debt in projects. She asked, How to start when there’s…
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Software Development
Technical Debt – when do you have to pay it off?
There are 2 times to think about technical debt: When you are building a system and making trade-off decisions between…
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Software Development
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…
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Agile
Programs and Technical Debt
Once you have a program (a collection of interrelated projects focused on one business goal) and you have technical debt,…
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Agile
Infrastructure, Technical Debt, and Automated Test Framework
I’ve had several conversations in email and with clients recently that have all been about this question: “What do we…
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