Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. At the recent midyear conference of the National Association of ...

Most organizations think of their technical debt as a burden to be managed. Others are finding more success by making it an important part of the day-to-day job of a developer. “Debt is like any other ...

ServiceNow's Adam Spearing on why AI inaction is creating a new kind of forward-looking technical debt — and how to build the right foundations for sustainable adoption before the gap becomes ...

In today’s ever-increasing digital world, the speed at which technology is changing and updating is significant. From cloud computing and AI to automation and data-driven decision-making, enterprises ...

Like student loans and credit card balances, technical debt is holding you back or even killing your business. Unfortunately, the cloud can't always save you. You’re working for a company that has ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

As the Trump administration pushes agencies to break down data silos, the IT officials leading the charge are grappling with a problem that has occasionally complicated matters: figuring out how to ...

Everyone worries too much about “technical debt.” It’s not real. It’s just a slate of software projects that would have happened anyway. CIOs use debt use to protect budgets with categories everyone ...

As the world grows more connected, businesses are evolving to keep up with the rapid pace of digital transformation. Consequently, IT spending is on the rise globally and is projected to total $4.4 ...

Ask any development team about technical debt and you're likely to get a nod of recognition--followed by a shrug. It's a familiar term, but too often treated as a theoretical concept rather than a ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. As organizations raise the maturity level of their IT ...