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002 - Technology Whisperers Tech-Debt episode
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In this episode Alistair and Sean discuss Technical Debt and Legacy Technologies.
We define what Technical Debt is and is not.
“Not making a decision is making a decision, and usually a bad one.”
We talk about Hardware vs cloud vs software tech debt.
Define good Debt vs bad Debt.
When is deciding to incur tech debt is acceptable.
Impact from Technical Debt to business costs and future capability.
financial impacts - licensing, TCO (Total cost of Ownership), lockin-cost, write-downs
risks - security, people, business, process
And finally how to deal with Tech Debt
knowing what you have - discovery process
translation - between business and technology
cost/impact to cost/upgrade and cost of delay
financial planning to remediate and impact to business initiatives
Migration options (7)
- rehost
- replatform
- refactor-rearchitect
- repurchase
- retire
- retain
Architecture and roadmaps to deal with Tech Debt
Strategies for preventing future debt
challenges to making decisions
- 1 user still on the system
- monolithic architectures
- unknown devices/systems
- ownership of systems, software, business processes
- financial approvals to remediate
- Stalwarts (server huggers)
Basically an actioned packed episode!
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