The good folks at Cutter are making the October Issue of the Cutter IT Journal (CITJ) available to anyone who is interested in getting deeper into the intricacies of technical debt. Included is an article by Net Objectives Fellow Consultant Ken Pugh. Here is the table of contents for the issue:
Opening Statement by Israel Gat
Modernizing the DeLorean System: Comparing Actual and Predicted Results of a Technical Debt Reduction Project by John Heintz
The Economics of Technical Debt by Stephen Chin, Erik Huddleston, Walter Bodwell, and Israel Gat
Technical Debt: Challenging the Metaphor by David Rooney
Manage Project Portfolios More Effectively by Including Software Debt in the Decision Process by Brent Barton and Chris Sterling
The Risks of Acceptance Test Debt by Ken Pugh
Transformation Patterns for Curing the Human Causes of Technical Debt by Jonathon Michael Golden
Infrastructure Debt: Revisiting the Foundation by Andrew Clay Shafer