REI Systems’ Technical Architect Viktor Pylypenko and Chief Technology Officer Subhash Kari published an article in Nextgov titled, “How to Overcome Technical Debt in IT Modernization Projects.” In this article, Pylypenko and Kari define technical debt as the cost differential between the expectation and the reality of the resources and time spent to develop a software feature. While some technical debt is unavoidable, you can recognize symptoms early (for example, by analyzing the quality of your code early on) and manage your technical debt responsibly (by making debt management an explicit objective during development) in order to manage and upgrade your organization’s technology effectively and affordably.
