Technical Debt? Don't Spend More Than One-Quarter Of Your Time Dealing With It
ZDNet, February 21st, 2023
There's a lot of overhang from technical debt incurred in the COVID-era rush to digital. How much effort should go into clearing it up?
Is technical debt -- taking short-term shortcuts at the expense of more stable long-term options -- a bigger problem than it was before 2020? Who knows? It has been around for decades, but impossible to see or measure. It's likely to be more pervasive -- with the recent rush to digital spurred by COVID-19, the overhang from technical debt may be more imposing than it's ever been. A survey released last year by Software AG found 78% of organizations have accrued more technical debt during the pandemic.