Tag: technical debt
Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps
Bill Doerrfeld | | application architecture, continuous deployment, Life cycle management, technical debtIdeally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem ...
Survey Reveals High Cost of Application Modernization
A survey of 250 software developers and architects in the U.S. found nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) reported that the average cost of an application modernization project is nearly $1.5 million, with ...
Technical Debt: When It Works and When It Doesn’t
Every software team has probably faced technical debt—the accumulation of little development deficiencies that will require rework down the line. Just like financial debt, they accrue interest as they build up, in ...
DevOps Institute Releases Upskilling IT 2022 Report
DevOps Institute, a professional member association working to advance the humans of DevOps, announced the release of its Upskilling IT 2022 report. In its fourth year, the Upskilling IT report highlights the ...
Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts ...
Survey Shows Increased Focus on Modernizing IT, Retiring Apps
A survey of 140 enterprise architects and IT leaders published today suggested that, while moving applications to the cloud remains a priority, more attention is being paid to reducing technical debt by ...
Sometimes, You Should Fix What Isn’t Broken
DevOps has been with us long enough now that there is a lot of legacy DevOps stuff running in all of the places I have eyes into. Ignoring items that are not ...
A Pandemic Side Effect: Rampant Technical Debt
On average, about a quarter of all IT budgets are allocated to handling technical debt each year. And this figure is set to rise, as 68% of organizations say their technical debt ...
Nobl9 Adds Hydrogen Platform to Surface Technical Debt Issues
Nobl9 today unveiled a Hydrogen platform that makes it simpler for DevOps teams to identify technical debt issues as they manage service level objectives (SLOs) as code. Hydrogen enables DevOps teams to ...
Managing Technical Debt is a Balancing Act
Technical debt is a nightmare for product managers. It can slow down teams and inhibit response time for delivering quality products to market. Yet, there are times when technical debt can be ...
3 Reasons Your Digital Transformation Stalled
The more a company modernizes, the more value it gets from the cloud, but not all digital transformation efforts are created—and executed—equally. According to Gartner, “87% of senior business leaders say digitalization ...
Some Technical Debt is Self-Resolving
But don't count on it. Fellow DevOps.com contributor Bill Doerrfeld recently wrote, "Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt," a great article about trends in technical debt, and it got me thinking about some ...
