Self-admitted technical debt (SATD) is a phenomenon in which developers intentionally annotate their source code with comments highlighting temporary, sub-optimal solutions implemented to achieve ...

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The legal industry’s adoption of artificial intelligence tools is increasingly forcing law firm chief financial officers to reckon with liabilities that extend beyond their traditional monetary ...

Will artificial intelligence (AI) help smash through the technical debt that has been growing in recent years? Or will emerging technology add a new layer of issues? Or, looking at it another way, ...

As companies grapple with legacy systems, a new governance model proves that strategic technical debt reduction is not just a cost—it is a high-return investment. In the fast-paced world of enterprise ...

PARIS and NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Companies and governments would need to spend 61 billion workdays in software development time to ‘pay off’ the technical debt they’ve accrued ...

Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced it has been named a Sample Vendor in the 2025 Gartner report titled “Reduce IAM Technical Debt” by Nat Krishnan and Erik Wahlstrom.

Cost optimization is a top priority for most small and medium-sized businesses. But the risks tied to riding out legacy technology can outweigh the immediate savings. Specifically, kicking the can ...

Banks are eager to modernise with AI and other new technologies, but outdated legacy systems and technical debt are holding them back. These issues make operations fragile, increase the risk of errors ...

Technical debt is a hidden weight that can quietly undermine the long-term stability of both products and platforms. Yet addressing it often feels at odds with the pressure to keep building and ...

For years, some of the builders of our digital future have tech-splained the necessity of “moving fast and breaking things.” A stodgy, backward-looking legal and regulatory guardrail system, the ...

Don’t call it technical debt unless you’re going to go back and fix it. Otherwise, you’re just giving the team permission to do things the wrong way. We need to stop using the term “technical debt” as ...