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.

Technical debt is a metaphor used in software development that is intended to help people understand that there is a cost to making short-term decisions that result in long-term increases in cost.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AI-generated code is creating a new form of technical debt, less visible and harder to unwind than the traditional kind. Here’s what to do about it.

The United States has long struggled with managing its financial debt—borrowing beyond its means, deferring payments and accumulating obligations that eventually come due. The same holds true for ...

The bigger the cybersecurity technical debt the bigger the risk of being exposed to security flaws. Experts share how to reduce the debt therefore reducing risk. Most veteran CISOs implicitly ...

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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 ...