Everyone worries too much about “technical debt.” It’s not real. It’s just a slate of software projects that would have happened anyway. CIOs use debt use to protect budgets with categories everyone ...

Is technical debt -- taking short-term shortcuts at the expense of more stable long-term options -- a bigger problem than it was before 2020? Who knows? It has been around for decades, but impossible ...

Technical debt often negatively impacts business outcomes. Find a way for the IT and business teams to both meet their objectives. Chances are your agile development team struggles with addressing ...

Technical debt is kryptonite for the prosperity and longevity of any technology-based business. At some point in time, legacy components, software and aging assets and resources will no longer meet ...

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Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At the recent midyear conference of the National Association of ...

From regional banks to global investment firms, financial institutions carry significant levels of technical debt, especially in areas such as core banking systems, payments infrastructure and ...

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