Technical Debt: What It Is and Why It’s Slowing You Down
Technical Debt Technical debt is a term that gets thrown around all the time in large enterprise businesses, but it’s not just for the big guys. It comes for all of us. If you have a sinking feeling that something about your IT is slowing you down, then you need to read this post. Let’s start things off with a definition…or two. What Is Technical Debt? So what is technical debt exactly? Good question. IBM defines it as “the future costs associated with relying on shortcuts or suboptimal decisions made during software development.” That works if you’re, you know, in software development, but it’s a little too specific if you ask us. Because technical debt affects everyone. Go a little broader and a little simpler, and you can think of technical debt as the cost of falling behind on tech. Everything works a little slower, a little worse, and there are nebulous but major costs just over the horizon. Windows Is the Biggest Example of Technical Debt for Most Small Businesses If this term i...