Israel Gat

Implications of Technical Debt Uncertainty for Software Licensing

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:33:51 GMT

Israel Gat writes "...Traditional enterprise software vendors do not typically provide the technical debt data for the applications they sell/license. In contrast, a customer can carry out his/her assessment of technical debt straight off the open source code. For example,..." more

How Technical Debt Ties into Cloud, Mobile and Social

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:21:48 GMT

Israel Gat writes "...My hunch is that the magic ceiling for software development in the US is somewhere around $10 per line of code in technical debt. As long as you are under this ceiling you could still pay back...CIOs should conduct a technical debt assessment on a representative sample of their legacy code...The board discussion should focus on..." more

The Supply Side to Consumerization of Enterprise Software

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:46:35 GMT

Israel Gat writes "...The growing gap between “this lovely application on my iPhone” and the “headache of licensing traditional enterprise software” is an immense incentive for up-and-coming software vendors to use the ‘$7.99 experience’ as the heart of a new business design. This new business design can be simply summarized as “low-touch; low-margin; low commitment” [2]. And, yes, it is very disruptive to the incumbents…" more

Consumerization of Enterprise Software: Cloud-Mobile-Social

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:40:06 GMT

Israel Gat writes "...consumerization of IT will not scale big time until enterprise software gets “consumerized” or at least modernized...I believe two factors are likely to accelerate the pace toward “consumerization” of enterprise software:...Any department/business unit that can get a service in entirety from an outside source is likely to do so...Once the switch-over costs from legacy code to state-of-the-art code are less than..." more

Accessing and Managing Technical Debt

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:34:17 GMT

Israel Gat writes "...From a governance perspective, technical debt techniques give us the opportunity to carry out consistent governance of the software process based on a single source of truth. The single source of truth is, of course, the code itself. The very same truth is reflected at every level in the organization..." more

DevOps on the Rise as a New Standalone IT Discipline

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:39:39 GMT

Israel Gat writes "...The backlog establishes a base line for the tasks to be carried out in the project...For a DevOps project, start by establishing the technical debt of the software to be released to operations. By so doing you build the foundations for collaboration between development and operations through shared data..." more