Beyond technical debt

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Beyond Technical Debt
The interest we pay on our failures.
April 17, 2013

Technical Debt

 Ward Cunningham suggested the term “technical debt” to refer
to the cutting of corners when you buil...

Accumulation of Debt

 We find the concept of technical debt useful to describe the
‘sins of the past’ and to encoura...

The Real Debt Threat

In addition to the traditional technical debt, we’ve encountered
new forms of debt that plague sof...

Organizational Debt refers to ineffective
organizational structures that obstruct the efficient delivery of
work.

 Ma...

Personnel Debt refers to organizations that have the
wrong people, leading to inefficient delivery.

 Poor hiring pract...

Process Debt refers to organizations that have the wrong
delivery processes: Too much, not enough, or just wrong.

 Som...

Practice Debt refers to organizations that fail to
accumulate and disseminate best practices to their teams.

 “Those w...

Tooling Debt refers to organizations that don’t have the
right tools or platforms for the job at hand.

 “If all you ha...

Automation Debt refers to organizations that
continue to do things by hand that should be automated.

 No continuous ...

Testing Debt refers to organizations that built software
but did inadequate testing.

 System lacks unit or functiona...

Operational Debt refers to organizations that create
systems that are hard/expensive to operate in a production setting.
...

Declaring Bankruptcy or Paying off the Debt

 On occasion, we find a software system that has accumulated
large techn...

MomentumSI Consulting

Consulting – Strategy - Delivery

 Assessment of current state, workshops and roadmaps
...

Beyond technical debt

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