For over 400 years, people have used the adage, “can’t see the forest for the trees,” to indicate that individuals are so focused on parts of a situation that they lose sight of the bigger picture. The same sentiment is often applied to development teams who appear to ignore or deprioritize more significant issues when […]
All businesses that depend on modern technology are affected by technical debt. According to a recent McKinsey survey, 10% to 20% of business tech budgets reserved for new projects is redirected to resolve issues related to tech debt. Even worse, unchecked tech debt can lead to operational disruption, slow engineering velocity, and stunt innovation. In […]
In today’s fast-changing technological and business environments, modernizing mission-critical apps is a high priority for companies that want to improve or even just maintain their competitive position. Yet modernization efforts often fall short of yielding the hoped-for benefits. A recent McKinsey report highlights a major reason for such failures: “as companies modernize their IT, a […]
Most companies carry technical debt, costing them 20% to 40% of their technology’s value. Over 60% of chief information officers believe their technical debt will continue to grow. Some suggest the debt adds 20% to 30% to the cost of any development project. Yet, there’s no consensus as to what equals too much debt. Some […]
How all organizations can learn to spot the warning signs Until recently, “technical debt” was a term reserved mostly for those in IT, specifically, architects, developers, app owners and IT leaders. Thanks to a few high-profile outages at Southwest Airlines, the FAA, and Twitter, technical debt has made it to mainstream media outlets which are […]
How to get buy-in and budget for successful application modernization Bob Quillin, chief ecosystem officer at vFunction, is an industry expert when it comes to application modernization. He often finds that the biggest hurdle to application modernization is developing a compelling business case to take on such a complicated task that can be costly and […]
In March 2023, Amazon.com published an article on how it rearchitected its Prime Video offering from a distributed microservices architecture to a ‘monolithic’ architecture running within a single Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) stack. Despite a reduction in infrastructure cost of over 90%, the seemingly counterintuitive move generated consternation across the cloud architecture community. Monoliths […]
We’re excited to share that vFunction has been named in the Gartner 2023 Measure and Monitor Technical Debt With 5 Types of Tools. According to Gartner, “Growing technical debt negatively impacts feature delivery, quality, and predictability of software applications. Software engineering leaders should introduce tools to proactively measure and monitor technical debt at both the […]
Technical debt. It’s a term most people have never heard of. But over the holiday season of 2022, thousands of air travelers became personally acquainted, much to their dismay, with the disastrous impact a failure to modernize critical applications and eliminate technical debt can have on companies and their customers. Starting on December 2, 2022, […]
As a Chief Information Officer (CIO) or Chief Technology Officer (CTO), you and your team may have spent weeks, if not months, every year measuring the technical debt of your legacy applications and infrastructure. You’ve examined aging frameworks, software defect patterns, code quality, release frequencies, and technical debt ratios. You’ve presented the data to other […]
