The Engineering and Management Practice Guide To Technical Debt
Rescuing Profit and Customer Satisfaction from
The Silent Company Killer
A Practical Guide to sound business decisions by implementing best practice technical debt management
Technical Debt Rot is damaging your company business agility and competitiveness - RIGHT NOW!
Technical Debt has become more evident in the last decade as the pace and horizon of change continues to expand. Today’s developers focus on delivering products and services to quickly to solve a market need. Developers who over-architect only delay launch and waste money.
To do well, you need to stay on top of new technologies as well as full understanding of your internal systems, your teams, as well as strategic initiatives and business goals.
Technical debt will paralyze products and decimate maintenance and support - making changes or upgrades a nightmare ordeal ...
So, while shortcuts and assumptions help developers iterate quickly, they also cause products, hardware, systems or software to accrue technical debt.
Left unaddressed, this debt bogs down systems, crashes software, causing months of delay in product and service releases or upgrades.
Those design, development and manufacture 'short-cuts' in your deadline-driven drive to early market launch will continuously chew into into your revenue - and rot your product to the point where customers buy elsewhere ... as your reputation sinks swiftly into the swamp ...
It is essential to understand how Technical Debt works to paralyze the business and profitability future of your products, services, and ultimately, your company.
You may gain time now, only to lose it later as technical debt slows your company’s effectiveness over time. Technical Debt prevents business agility and competitiveness
Technical Debt In Systems
Technical Debt has been covered so far in pure software systems. However, I include technical debt in technical systems such as those consisting of mechanical, electrical, hardware and software elements.
Going further, you must understand how technical debt infects the business health of just about every project and endevour in every industry sector - whether agile or not ...
Did you know that technical debt can plague the developers of everyday items such as kitchen appliances, smart phones, your family car, processes, procedures, systems, and even infrastructure projects?
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Technical Debt Practice Guide Course Overview
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Module 1: Unearthing Knowledge Work and Projects
This first Module has a duration of 25 minutes. The best place to begin preparation is to understand how knowledge work and project methodologies work together. In particular, the differences between predictive and adaptive project methodologies as both sources for technical debt and its remedy.
You must be clear that although Technical Debt evolved from software development, it is applicable to ALL organizations, systems, processes, professions and industries, and so you need to gain a solid grasp of this situation.
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Module 2: Discovering Technical Debt
This Module has a duration of 14 minutes. Here, I introduce you to the concept of technical debt and the hidden roles it plays in dragging your products and services into danger. You will learn how incremental and iterative development approaches can remedy the situation and how sound business best practice and principles lay at the heart of technical debt.
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Module 3: Checking Technical Debt Symptoms
This Module has a duration of 15 minutes. You will learn how technical debt tentacles spread throughout an organization and how the legacy of liability infects productivity.There are many 'flavours' of technical debt, and here I show you how to spot the main debt types.
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Module 4: Discovering Technical Debt Consequences
This Module has a duration of 16 minutes. So why should you care about technical debt? I showcase the pernicious pain it gives to your product developers, your clients, and your users.Technical debt lurks "under the hood" of your product or service, and I show you a software development term called 'refactoring'and how you can harness this to any product.
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Module 5: Focus Teams Delivering Business Value
This Module has a duration of 30 minutes. This module introduces the ways in which you can help development teams deliver value, and how the focus on technical practices will accelerate team development and deliver at maximum speed.
I take the opportunity to introduce you to a method called Extreme Programming. Don't worry, I won't be bombarding you with software - rather, I give you a set of techniques that you can apply to your products or services
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Module 6: Setting Out Technical Debt Repercussions
This Module has a duration of 8 minutes. Half the battle with Technical Debt is won, once you discover the NINE key symptoms that give clues to the manifestation of debt.
You will learn that as the level of technical debt rises, so does the severity of the consequences.
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Module 7: Compounding Technical Debt - Part One
This Module has a duration of 16 minutes. Sponsors usually want to know when the project will be done. Once the team establishes a reliable velocity (average stories or story points per iteration) or the average cycle time, the team can predict how much longer the project will take.
Not may understand how the agile term velocity applies also to traditional project methods. Strategic or naive debt are often driven by looming business deadlines and are a trap for increasing technical debt.
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Module 8: Compounding Technical Debt - Part Two
This Module has a duration of 16 minutes. I describe the dangers of how accelerating and forcing team development speed takes on technical debt by cutting corners, poorer design, reduce testing, etc.
You become reluctant to make ANY changes because of the product impact
Just one small change could cause unpredictable multiple breakages elsewhere in the product. Bad choices are now everywhere!
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Module 9: Making Technical Debt Visible
This Module has a duration of 23 minutes. These are the SEVEN key steps to unearthing Technical Debt and your first steps to fixing it. I describe FIVE approaches to technical debt management.
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Module 10: The Economics of Technical Debt
This Module has a duration of 14 minutes. Here I show you how a strong definition of Done is essential, and the TWO key options you have, along with a worked example.You will also learn the business trade-off decisions that must be made.
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Module 11: Servicing Technical Debt
This Module has a duration of 16 minutes. I take you through the THREE technical debt situations you need to analyze in order to service the debt, how to harness the 'boy scout rule', and the FOUR approaches to debt repayment and relevant benefit from each.
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Module 12: Organizational-level Technical Debt
This Module has a duration of 12 minutes. I describe the bigger picture of organizational technical debt. I summarize the main approaches used in different industries and organizations.
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Module 13: Managing Predictive Technical Debt
This Module has a duration of 26 minutes. In this module, I show how Technical Debt is managed within a traditional predictive or 'waterfall' method project. I describe the methods to estimate, track and service technical debt.
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Module 14: Technical Debt In Other Disciplines
This Module has a duration of 20 minutes. Just because Technical Debt was first discovered in agile software projects does not mean those type of endevours are the only ones afflicted. In this module I take you through a variety of different projects in various industries and product types and share how technical debt manifests itself in all of them.
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