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These are exciting times in the IT industry. The cloud, DevOps, the Internet of Things, machine learning, and countless other innovations are rapidly changing our marketplace.…
Declan Whelan
Declan Whelan, declan@leanintuit.com. Declan is an agile consultant, co-founder of Leanintuit and a director at the Agile Alliance. Declan works with organizations to improve their products and services through agile and lean practices.
His personal mission is to change the conversation around technical debt. Rather than viewing is a technical problem to be fixed we need to view it as valuable feedback of the health of our organizations. We can use these health checks to improve our product and service delivery.
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As an executive, you know that, by quickly delivering innovative, high-value-added features, you gain new customers and market share from your competitors.
All too often rele…
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As explained in our introduction document about technical debt, it is important to identify and analyze technical debt in order to take relevant decisions about its payback.
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What is Technical Debt? Where does it come from?
Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto, once said that some problems with code are like financial debt.…
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The adage, "Act in haste, repent at leisure," definitely applies to technical debt. People under deadline pressure take shortcuts, which is one of several ways in which projec…
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"A challenge with a microservice architecture is deciding and evolving the boundaries of each microservice.
I will talk about building an architecture based on the ""rapids…
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While microservices offer a way to easily compose and scale systems they pose some challenges.
Designing our systems functionally with simple data structures and composable…
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Most of us have worked in situations where a large amount of effort is spent addressing defects, support calls and technical debt. I recently worked with one team where they e…
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Technical debt is a burden on software innovation that we would rather avoid, and certainly clean up whenever possible. However, in most organizations, people don't prevent te…
