I want to let CFOs in on a little secret. It’s called “technical debt.” It consumes nearly one-third of technology budgets and more than one-fifth of technology professionals’ time. What’s more, 70% ...

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Technical debt, the accumulation of shortcuts and compromises in software systems, is an issue across industries with consequences ranging from system failures and security breaches to hindered ...

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 ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At the recent midyear conference of the National Association of ...

The bigger the cybersecurity technical debt the bigger the risk of being exposed to security flaws. Experts share how to reduce the debt therefore reducing risk. Most veteran CISOs implicitly ...

Ask any development team about technical debt and you're likely to get a nod of recognition--followed by a shrug. It's a familiar term, but too often treated as a theoretical concept rather than a ...

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 ...

Is technical debt -- taking short-term shortcuts at the expense of more stable long-term options -- a bigger problem than it was before 2020? Who knows? It has been around for decades, but impossible ...

Infrastructure technical debt is the accumulation of work required to keep systems operating reliably and securely, and it happens because infrastructure deteriorates, according to Tony Harvey, ...