AT#10: Technical Debt – the ignored Killer of “Agile” Enterprises
Trapped in the vortex of digital transformation, almost all industries are facing challenges caused by highly accelerated technology innovation cycles, new and disrupting competitors, and, last but not least, a tremendous amount of technical debt in their vast historically grown IT landscape.
Dave Sag’s blog provides a good summary of what technical debt means.
To deal with this area of tension companies trust in ‘Agile’ gurus that tell them how they must change their organization and culture to become ‘agile’. If we look at the complexity of the application landscape of a typical company it becomes obvious that they simply can’t be agile without renovation projects that make their legacy IT agile.
What you should do:
- Reduce your technical debt step by step by the renovation of your legacy IT. Agile IT landscapes make companies agile, not agile coaches that focus on culture and organizational aspects.
- Hire business architects instead of agile coaches.
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