Avoiding increasing IT debt by preparing for mobile development
[Johannesburg, 9 May 2012] -
According to Gartner: "IT debt - the cost of dealing with delayed and deferred maintenance of the application portfolio - threatens to grow to $1 trillion globally by 2015.”Businesses are building up increasingly expensive and complex backlogs of "essential" software and hardware maintenance activities. As this situation worsens, so the cost of changing to existing and new requirements increases and customer responsiveness declines (Jim Highsmith, ThoughtWorks, 2010).Ryan Shriver, leader of Dominion Digital's IT Performance Improvement solutions, in his paper: Seven strategies for technical debt, describes the following six symptoms of technical debt:
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