Articles tagged “technical debt”

3 articles tagged with technical debt.

An executive standing between an aging data center and a modern workspace, weighing whether to replace the system or evolve it

Why Your Legacy System Isn't the Real Problem

When leaders say 'we need to replace this system,' the real problem is usually not the system. It is the strategy. Here is how to tell the difference, and what to do instead of a rip-and-replace.

An executive standing in front of a software architecture diagram with decaying sections representing software entropy, with a credit-card-debt overlay reinforcing the analogy

Software Entropy and the Credit Card Trap

Software decays even when you are not touching it. Here is why big-bang modernization paradoxically accelerates that decay, and the incremental approach that prevents the crisis instead of producing it.

← All Articles