Webinar – The CRASH Report 2011/2012
In this webinar, Dr. Bill Curtis, Senior Vice-President and Chief-Scientist at CAST Software, discusses the recently published study of software quality trends in IT: the CRASH Report (CAST Report on...
View ArticleHow to Monetize Application Technical Debt — Gartner & CAST
This is a Gartner-CAST newsletter which shows the data-driven approach to balancing delivery agility with business risk. The paper features exclusive analysis from Andy Ktye, Gartner VP and Fellow who...
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Technical Debt: How Much is it Really Costing
How much Technical Debt do we have? How do we quantify the cost? How do we measure the interest accumulated or paid off? These are probably the most difficult questions to answer when it comes to...
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Technical Debt in Business Applications – World Quality Report
Capgemini and HP recently released their “World Quality Report” (WQR) which examines the state of application technical quality and testing practices across different industries and geographies....
View ArticlePaying Down the Technical Debt Interest on your Applications — Dr. Bill Curtis
A Guide to Measuring & Managing Technical Debt In this just-released white paper, Dr. Bill Curtis – SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST – examines the Technical Debt metaphor to explain how it can be...
View ArticleIBM Virtual Event – Looking inside the Box, an Important Application Testing...
What is contributing to the $2.4M in technical debt in an average application of 510K lines of code? Less than 30% of production failures are related to functional issues. What are the non-functional...
View ArticlePaying Down the Interest on your IT Technical Debt — CAST
Dr. Bill Curtis – Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist with CAST – lays out the “Technical Debt Management Cycle”, a 7-step process for analyzing and measuring Software Debt so you can relate...
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“IT Organizations Have Far Too Much Technical Debt”
Dr. Bill Curtis, Senior VP and Chief Scientist at CAST, explains in this interview that we need to measure the structural quality of business applications and incorporate Technical Debt demands in...
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Time to Start Estimating Technical Debt
Last week IEEE Software published a special edition for their Nov/Dec issue, dedicated to Technical Debt! My colleagues and I at CAST Research Labs put together an article which was featured in the...
View Article5th International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt
Update: Take a look at the presentations from some of the speakers in the industry, including Lockheed Martin, Siemens Healthcare, and IBM on how they manage and calculate Technical Debt. SEI is...
View ArticleReducing Technical Debt to Scale-up Productivity
In this post the question “how to create value for businesses at a time when labour arbitrage in the outsourcing industry has plummeted?” is looked into and one of the strategies that has been employed...
View ArticleA Technical Debt Reduction Plan
Technical debt can bog down any organization that attempts to be agile. If too much of the IT budget is spent on maintenance and not on innovation and development, productivity will decline sharply....
View ArticleTechnical Debt: The Difference Between Standing Still and Moving Forward
Currently, there are many businesses whose innovation and productivity are hampered by costly and inflexible information technology. Anywhere between 4-6% of a firm’s revenue is spent on IT – a figure...
View ArticleThe Case Against Letting Go of Technical Debt
When starting a new project, it’s assumed that you begin with optimal code. Then when you add a feature, it take E amount of effort. But what if the code you’re writing on for the new feature is less...
View ArticleDigital Transformation and Software Quality Measurement
There is now a new benchmark for the structural quality of software to help help CIOs prevent system failures from becoming headline news. CISQ announced new measurement specifications based on flaws...
View ArticlePaying Down the Technical Debt Interest on your Applications — Dr. Bill Curtis
A Guide to Measuring & Managing Technical Debt In this just-released white paper, Dr. Bill Curtis – SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST – examines the Technical Debt metaphor to explain how it can be...
View ArticleTechnical Debt & Software Quality Tools
It’s estimated that the federal government spends about $80 billion a year on IT; over 70% of this goes to maintaining legacy systems with the remaining 30% going to new investment in next-generation...
View ArticleTechnical Debt and Breaking Down “Tribal Speak”
In this great podcast from .Net Rocks! the discussion on how to handle technical debt takes an interesting turn towards the discrepancy in communication between different stakeholders on a software...
View ArticleHow Technical Debt Can Help You Be Innovative
Vision is a term often employed to describe leaders: i.e “they have vision” or “they are visionaries”. But vision itself is a rather arbitrary term that doesn’t necessarily have defined metrics to...
View ArticleTechnical Debt and Reverse Grind: How to Manage it
It is common practice for a developer to make a quick fix in a software project and to then move onto the next shiny new feature. The development lifecycle is getting increasingly shorter and business...
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