8 KPIs To Reduce Technical Debt
SearchCIO, Thursday, September 26th, 2024
To ensure an IT project's long-term success, stakeholders should keep track of certain KPIs to ensure technical debt is as low as possible.
Dealing with technical debt is unavoidable. But certain KPIs can help project teams mitigate the problem and prevent issues later. Companies generally try to limit technical debt. Accumulating it might seem necessary at times, but project teams should avoid doing so if possible.
For example, consider the difference between deciding to add technical debt to hit a customer's go-live date and technical debt accumulating because the project team didn't follow the right processes, produce the correct documentation or perform sufficient testing. Adding technical debt in the first scenario is necessary, while doing so in the second scenario is avoidable.