In one of my previous blog articles I talked about Software Debt escalating to Technical Bankruptcy, here I will explore more the need for and apparent lack of monitoring of accrued software debt within businesses. The lack of understanding of software debt by business managers, particularly those based on software as their primary product, is a fatal mistake in their business strategy in my view. It is akin to only looking at the sales numbers and not a the operating expense, one day you’ll find yourself paying more for a sale than the revenue from the sale.Recently I used the idiom ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’ to convey this point, I particularly liked it as the original Arabic proverb describes how a camel is loaded beyond its capacity to move, that is exactly what happens with software debt the [Read More...]
