Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At the recent midyear conference of the National Association of ...

Most organizations think of their technical debt as a burden to be managed. Others are finding more success by making it an important part of the day-to-day job of a developer. “Debt is like any other ...

In today’s ever-increasing digital world, the speed at which technology is changing and updating is significant. From cloud computing and AI to automation and data-driven decision-making, enterprises ...

Like student loans and credit card balances, technical debt is holding you back or even killing your business. Unfortunately, the cloud can't always save you. You’re working for a company that has ...

Evan Doty is a senior field solution architect at CDW focused on hybrid cloud and Microsoft Azure. His areas of expertise include LAN and WAN network design and implementation, Windows system ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Everyone worries too much about “technical debt.” It’s not real. It’s just a slate of software projects that would have happened anyway. CIOs use debt use to protect budgets with categories everyone ...

Back in January, I took to LinkedIn to highlight a now-famous example of technical debt: Over the holidays, record-breaking storms posed a host of logistical challenges for the airline industry. No ...

Ask any development team about technical debt and you're likely to get a nod of recognition--followed by a shrug. It's a familiar term, but too often treated as a theoretical concept rather than a ...

This paper explores where security debt comes from, how it grows, and its consequences when left unmanaged, and shows how visibility, accountability, and shared ownership can turn debt from a ...