technical debt

Philly ETE 2022 — A Framework for Addressing Technical Debt — Chelsea Troy

Abstract Addressing tech debt can feel like a Sisyphean task. After weeks of work, the success case is for the system to work the same as it used to. Organizations often declare code bankruptcy and rewrite working systems from scratch. How do we end up here? How could we have avoided it? And how do … Read More

Philly ETE 2021 — Prioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters — Adam Tornhill

Abstract Prioritizing technical debt is a hard problem as modern systems have millions of lines of code and multiple development teams — no one has a holistic overview. In addition, there’s always a trade-off between improving existing code versus adding new features so we need to use our time wisely. What if we could mine … Read More