Toxic Code
“[The 100% loan-to-value subprime loan is] the most dangerous product in existence and there can be nothing more toxic…” This quip by Angelo Mozilo, founder of Countrywide Financial, led me to coin the...
View ArticleHow to Break the Vicious Cycle of Technical Debt
The dire consequences of the pressure to quickly deliver more functions and features to the market have been described in detail in various posts in this blog (see, for example, Toxic Code). Relentless...
View ArticleHow Technical Debt Ties to Cloud, Mobile and Social
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:West_Side_Highway_collapsed_at_14th.jpg Many years ago, when I came to the US, I was shocked to the core seeing the collapsed West Side Highway in New York City. I...
View ArticleSPaMCAST 112 – Israel Gat, Technical Debt
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pumpkinjuice/229764922/ Click here for my just published interview on Technical Debt. Major themes discussed in the interview are as follows: The nature of technical debt...
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