Technical Debt - The Cost in Performance and Security

Legacy code and even more modern code can be infested with a lot of ‘technical debt.’  Technical debt is a term defined by Ward Cunningham to describe the various choices and shortcuts used to get a project completed on schedule, usually suboptimal and difficult to maintain.  Too many believe that this is just the price of doing business. But the ‘interest’ you pay on this debt is steep.  As the debt increases, not only does the cost and complexity of maintenance and feature enhancements increase; you will also experience performance degradation and security exposures.  Learn how we got to this point, what it is costing you and how you can more readily move forward by reducing that debt.

Tracks: Application Development, IT Services Delivery and Software Architecture