Every CEO knows the feeling of promised features taking months longer than expected, simple changes breaking unrelated systems, and top engineers fighting fires more than they build the future.

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 ...

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 ...

Many IT execs are concerned AI is creating more tech debt, not less. AI may be running on debt-laden platforms. Longer-term thinking is needed for software. Tech debt has long been an ever-expanding ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Innovation. Entrepreneurship. Culture. This year, companies across the world are working to tackle a problem that has been eating ...

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 ...

From regional banks to global investment firms, financial institutions carry significant levels of technical debt, especially in areas such as core banking systems, payments infrastructure and ...