Tag: technical debt
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 ...
Enterprises Face Growing Technical Debt
Technologists are always espousing new, trendy development solutions. More robust frameworks, increased delivery, better integration. But rarely do these proponents consider the long-term side effects of introducing new technologies. As a result, ...
Cattle, Not Kittens – Revisited
The early days of DevOps were filled with pronouncements that we needed to treat our servers as cattle, not pets (kittens). For a year or so, the refrain was everywhere. And we ...
Value Stream Management: Treat Your Pipeline as Your Most Important Product
When it comes to accelerating customer value, it’s dangerous to focus only on the development and delivery of a digital product. For many enterprises, most time is invested before a single line ...
Documenting: Don’t Build Your Replacement’s Nightmare
Want to reduce headaches tomorrow? Document everything today About once a year I feel the need to remind you that you are creating technical debt. DevOps is good stuff, and most shops ...
Communicating with Management About Technical Debt
We’re all familiar with the challenges of technical debt. While it’s often unavoidable–due to time constraints, resource considerations or simply a lack of good information–it still weighs on our minds and puts ...
Prevent Technical Debt by Knowing When to Remove Feature Flags
As more organizations use feature flags and experiments, it’s critical to understand that some of these changes should exist for only a short or specific period of time, and then be removed ...
App Mobility Is the New Use Case
Selling increased investment in DevOps is not always easy. It takes time to implement, resource away from other projects and inevitably there is cash outlay. If not done carefully, it also appears ...
IT Enables Scale in Digital Transformation
Few corporate functions have seen their role disrupted as much as IT these last few years. The help desk days are long gone. As digital transformation accelerates, IT is becoming less about ...
Don’t Let Cultural Debt Bring Down Your Business
Businesses today are faced with myriad challenges to innovate and optimize. In doing so, we often need to make decisions that borrow against the future. This can come in a tangible form, ...