Monthly Archives: March 2023

The Meaning and Origin of "Technical Debt" The metaphor of Technical Debt (TD) in the context of software was coined by Ward Cunningham who at the time was working on coding a financial system. He used the metaphor to explain to his financial colleagues the reasoning for refactoring and rewriting parts of codes as the knowledge [...]

Here are some insights into the value of finding requirements defects  before design or coding. To a software development team it is very valuable to find defects early.  Even better still, is to prevent defects altogether.  Excellent requirements are an effective form of defect prevention and rework prevention.   An ambiguous requirement [...]