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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 ...

At last year’s annual conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), Julia Richman, then the deputy executive director for the Colorado Office of Information ...

Technical debt is a central concept in modern software development, representing the long‐term maintenance challenges incurred when expedient, yet suboptimal, technical choices are made to meet ...

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Imagine launching a new digital service only to face a breach due to outdated code or an unpatched dependency. Enterprises face this more often than they admit. In today’s economy, technical debt is ...

Like student loans and credit card balances, technical debt is holding you back or even killing your business. Unfortunately, the cloud can't always save you. You’re working for a company that has ...

Most organizations think of their technical debt as a burden to be managed. Others are finding more success by making it an important part of the day-to-day job of a developer. “Debt is like any other ...