Generally seen as difficult to measure, McKinsey’s Tech Debt Score is an easy way for organizations to quantify technical debt. Generally seen as difficult to measure, McKinsey’s Tech Debt Score is an ...

Companies and governments would need to spend 61 billion workdays in software development time to ‘pay off’ the technical debt they’ve accrued over the past four decades, finds a report released today ...

Microsoft unveils new AI agents in GitHub Copilot and Azure Migrate that automate legacy code modernization, helping ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The critical nature and impact of technical debt on the business Why everyone should care about technical debt How difficult it ...

In our first installment, we defined technical debt, its continuously rising importance and why all should care about its mitigation within business. In our second installment, we learned how to share ...

When businesses are looking to optimise resources and cut costs, investing in new technology or upgrading their systems can seem like an expense that isn’t worth the risk. But even though a company ...

Don’t call it technical debt unless you’re going to go back and fix it. Otherwise, you’re just giving the team permission to do things the wrong way. We need to stop using the term “technical debt” as ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Why federal agencies must trade custom code for configurable, cloud-based platforms to modernize HR and financial management ...