Monthly Archives: January 2010

Why IT Matters More Than Ever

In 2003, Harvard Business Review published Nick Carr’s seminal essay, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” I remember that month well. The previous years of the PC boom, followed by the dotcom boom, had seen a tidal wave of money spent on technology. Much money was wasted on heavy investment in systems that either sat unused on a [...]

The Root Causes of Technical Debt

When we spend 80% of a development budget just keeping software that we already presumably “own” working and current, we know that technical debt is extracting a terrible toll on our budget. When making a simple program change requires effort measured in weeks rather than days, something has gone horribly wrong. In many circles, the [...]

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