Are you convinced your team should spend time paying off technical debt, but you can't get upper management on board? Here are some ideas that might help. Collect Numbers Upper…

There are many ways of categorizing technical debt. Here is just one way. I divide technical debt along two axes: intentional vs unintentional and known vs unknown. And I'll briefly…

Is it possible to avoid technical debt when starting a new project? And if not, should we just give up? Or can we find a way of maintaining quality projects…

Have your developers ever mentioned technical debt? Or are you wondering if you have technical debt? Are you interested in doing something about it? Is it even necessary to do…

So you've decided to do something about that piece of legacy code that is taking too much of your team's time. Then you should be aware of the strangler pattern.…

So you have a legacy application with quite some technical debt? But you've started turning the ship around and the situation is improving, right? If you're planning on increasing the…

I want to add one more thought to my previous post on how to achieve weekly (or faster) releases. It's about the difference between timed releases and scoped releases. A…

There are cases where it makes sense not to touch a legacy codebase with lots of technical debt. Unlike real debt that must always be repaid, technical debt doesn't always…