Technical Debt – Going beyond code

Technical debt (TD) refers to a product's deficiencies caused due to resource constraints, time-to-market or environmental factors like technology, process or business immaturity. The product deficiencies, apart from lack of functional completeness, can range from operational characteristics like maintainability, configurability issues or extensibility challenges to overall stability of the engaged platform.

This whitepaper offers an entirely different viewpoint to conventional understanding and visibility around technical debt, by introducing a model-driven approach of analyzing various parameters governing technical debt and multi-staged remediation framework to overcome this debt.

As a part of this model, listed below are some of the operational strategies you can consider for reducing TD:

• Continuous application innovation and Re-engineering
• Business/ Stakeholders’ awareness on impact of Technical Debt
• Improved visibility of Technical Debt within Application Portfolio
• Delivery process with integrated Technical Debt Management