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% ...

Temporary software fixes are often portrayed negatively, but they can accelerate opportunity.

Higher ed IT teams familiar with technical debt will understand why security debt is an equally important concern.

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 ...

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Short-term fixes and partially implemented systems have costs that can weigh on a company for years. This debt can also stifle innovation, resulting in lower long-term revenue. The pandemic ...

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The accumulation of older software and infrastructure, known as technical debt, takes a substantial amount of budget and resources to maintain. (svedoliver/Getty Images) Who remembers when floppy ...

With best practices and a commitment to not let technical debt grow, developers can make a solid business case, especially when staffing and money are tight. technical debt can be small, like minor ...

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 ...

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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 ...