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“Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.”—Josh Billings (American humorist) It’s one of the dirtiest words in tech. Just as in life, the very mention of debt conjures feelings of being weighed down, under stress. And getting out of debt is a chore. In

Higher Digital, a provider of consulting, software, and data benchmarking tools for higher education, has created a new assessment tool focused on the organizational behaviors and conditions that lead to "technical debt."

Dr Paidi O’Raghallaigh and Dr Stephen McCarthy at Cork University Business School as part of my PhD studies, and originally published by Cutter Consortium’s Business Agility & Software Engineering Excellence practice on 22nd of July 2021 Take a minute and write an answer to the question, “What is technical debt?” Then read this article and reread your answer — and see if it still makes sense. Technical debt is a common term in technology departments at every company where we’ve wor...

My thoughts about the Principal role 05 May 2021 Whats a Principal Software Engineer? One of the things I couldnt answer in the last 4-5 years was my role. Am I a manager? No. In some cases, people may report to me from an organisational point of view but my way to manage is "dont manage at all" and let the team self organize with my help. I tend to focus more on the team and processes and less on people. Im not a manager, I try to be a technical leader. Organizations that understand the Triden...

Our digital world wasn’t built with security in mind.

Picking your way through the productising minefield Learning to ‘just say no’ Before getting involved in technology, Paul Kearney was in the military Aitemology Plenty of tech companies face the same dilemma; how to productise their legacy software solution so they can scale it through cloud-based technology and ultimately satisfy the difficult questions all future investors or acquirers will inevitably ask. While the easy answer may be to start again, thats rarely an option. No CTO worth t...

Code Quality Control And Why You Need It If companies dont measure source code quality, how do they know if theyre building software effectively? Poor code quality deteriorates productivity and efficiency. by Code Quality is an important thing, right? Everyone knows that. And everyone agrees on that. So, why do most software companies: have no Code Quality definition, use Code Quality standards inconsistently, or don’t measure their Code Quality? In this article, I am going to focus on the 3...

Refactoring "Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated" managementese. It’s a great essay on communication — and how, in the workplace, communication naturally optimizes for clarity and speed. Weird phrases that we often mock, such as " action item", or " circling back", are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in very few words, and are understood by everybody. One of such great metaphors is Technical Debt. T...

Press Release – IDC Global technology market research company IDC has released its 2021 Top 10 IT Industry trends for New Zealand. The report , IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions New Zealand Implications provides IDC’s vision for how New Zealand … Global technology market research company IDC has released its 2021 Top 10 IT Industry trends for New Zealand. The report, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2021 Predictions –New Zealand Implications provides IDC�...