Every CEO knows the feeling of promised features taking months longer than expected, simple changes breaking unrelated systems, and top engineers fighting fires more than they build the future.

Tech debt: Everyone has heard the term, but what does it actually mean? Is it the result of bad code? Or is it a strategic decision that can make or break a company? There’s often a lot of confusion ...

Technical debt is a hidden weight that can quietly undermine the long-term stability of both products and platforms. Yet addressing it often feels at odds with the pressure to keep building and ...

This Halloween, while ghosts and zombies are knocking on doors across the world asking for candy and treats, a very real monster is knocking on the doors of organizations of all sizes: tech debt. And ...

Many IT execs are concerned AI is creating more tech debt, not less. AI may be running on debt-laden platforms. Longer-term thinking is needed for software. Tech debt has long been an ever-expanding ...

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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 ...

Amazon unveils agentic AI to tackle massive legacy tech debt. Transform modernizes Windows stacks and slashes costly licensing. New AI agents migrate code at speeds humans can't match. Well... that ...

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