Tag: techdebt

  • Relative to your interests on Thursday

    Your aging brain stops being a people-please. But: “The same directness that would be called ‘no-nonsense’ in a man gets called ‘abrasive’ in a woman over 40.” “I had to teach a lesson on asparagus, an ingredient I couldn’t care less about but apparently was good for SEO.” Forrester’s highlights from re:Invent, including things that…

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  • Monday assorted links

    Shadow AI, here it comes. Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop…oh, forget it… – ”IDC research shows that unmanaged tech debt can consume 20 – 40% of development time, diverting resources away from innovation and modernization.” “warehouses of bananas.” Europe is under siege “Applets are officially, completely removed from Java 26, coming in March…

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  • The Product Model Solves For Tech Debt – ”Forrester does not recommend ROI as a criteria for deciding to rectify technical debt, which should be seen more as essential maintenance spend.” // If you ran rail company they shouldn’t spend money on train maintenance, they’d tell you would kill the business (and people). Software is…

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  • The Product Model Solves For Tech Debt – ”Forrester does not recommend ROI as a criteria for deciding to rectify technical debt, which should be seen more as essential maintenance spend.” // If you risk rail company they shouldn’t spend money on train maintenance, they’d tell you would kill the business (and people). Software is…

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  • idling insignificantly

    idling insignificantly

    How to survive giving a lot of presentations at conferences I think it was John Willis who told me that a long time ago. Relative to your interests What is Technical Debt? – “In practice, my observations are that most development teams, even in small companies, are too far separated from these types of financial…

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  • 202306 – apenwarr – ’If you take a single pull request (PR) that adds a new feature, and launch it without tests or documentation, you will definitely get the benefits of that PR sooner. Every PR you try to write after that, before adding the tests and docs (ie. repaying the debt) will be slower…

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  • Link: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.

    Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code. Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.

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