Get Smart About Technical Debt
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The presentation discusses 'IT debt,' defined as the cumulative value of deferred maintenance resulting from budget cuts, projected to rise to $1 trillion by 2015. It highlights the need for strategic management of IT debt through understanding and addressing its causes, such as inadequate governance, poor alignment with business objectives, and legacy systems. Recommendations include enhancing technical standards, implementing regular assessments of application quality, and fostering better collaboration between IT and business leaders.
Get Smart About Technical Debt
- 2. Notes accompany this presentation. Please select Notes Page view. These materials can be reproduced only with Gartner's official approval. Such approvals may be requested via e-mail — vendor.relations@gartner.com. Role Of Analysis and Measurement in Managing IT Debt David Norton Research Director
- 3. "IT debt" is the cumulative value of deferred maintenance caused by IT budget cuts over the last decade. IT debt is currently $500,000,000,000 By 2015, IT debt risks rising to $1,000,000,000,000 The World IT Debt
- 4. Code complexity Maintainability Internal Coupling Functional Size Redundant code Testability External Coupling Operating cost Maintenance cost Reliability Performance Business Value So Where is Your Debt?
- 5. Why is the debt building up ?
- 6. Barriers to Enterprise Agility 50,000 Foot View The Headaches Allocating budgets for long-term planning Inadequate IT governance Asset control and ownership — who makes the decisions around here? Project management office support The Realities IT is viewed as a tactical solution provider Negative perception of IT — throwing good money after bad Tactical projects may slow — increasing the bad perception Short-term priorities trump long- term plans
- 7. 1 Foot View We just don’t have the skills We can not interrupt the business cycle There are to many dependencies We don’t have the time, other priorities Feel locked in to legacy – it’s just too hard
- 8. You Cannot Hide From IT Debt – Sooner or Later You Have To Pay It Back
- 9. Why should you care?
- 10. Influencing Forces IT Software Analysis and Measurement Market Drivers IT Drivers Technology Drivers The confluence of these drivers is forcing the movement to modernize and measure IT
- 11. Marketing Drivers for Analysis Consumerization Social Networking Cloud Computing Green Business EC2 & S3
- 12. IT Drivers Consolidation Aging Data Centers M&A Activity Limited Staffing Available Skills Baby Boomer Effect Flexibility & Agility Poor Business & IT Alignment
- 13. Technology Drivers SOA Initiatives Facilities and Infrastructures Virtualization Is Everywhere Legacy Packaged Applications Legacy Systems
- 14. What CIOs Said Top 10 Business Priorities Rank Business process improvement 1 Reducing enterprise costs 2 Improving enterprise workforce effectiveness 3 Attracting and retaining new customers 4 Increasing use of information/analytics 5 Creating new products or services 6 Targeting customers and markets more effectively 7 Managing change initiatives 8 Expanding current customer relationships 9 Expanding — new markets/regions 10 • No point improving process if supporting systems don’t perform •OPEX directly related to IT Debt • Legacy debt limits innovation and pushes up CAPEX
- 15. What can you do to start to remove IT Debt ?
- 16. Understand Your Debt High Excellent TechnicalQuality Business Value Re-Evaluate/ Reposition Asset (Tolerate or Invest) Maintain/ Evolve Asset (Integrate) Retire/ Consolidate Asset (Eliminate) Re-Engineer/ Modernize Asset (Migrate or Invest) Low Poor ? !
- 17. Take a Strategic Approach Silo Holistic Accidental Architecture Planned and Managed ROI ROA Project Life Tactical Strategic
- 18. Understand the Process Migrations Architecture Decision Take Inventory Cloud/ SOA Restructure Modernization Steps
- 19. Make it Business-Relevant BuyerSupplier Send Order Take Order Send Order Error Receive Order Error Send Order Responce Recive Order Respone Dispatch Order StockCheck Inventory <<service>> Stock <<Component>> Warehouse <<Service>> StockMan <<Component>> StockUpDate Order Management ERP InvoicingPayment Customer Order Line Items Address BillingShipping Account Payment Method Domain Model Concepts <<servi ce>> Order <<service >> Customer getTodaysStockLevel <<ser vice>> Stock confirmCustomer <<serv ice>> Shippi ng getEstShipDate validatePayment orderNotification sendConformation <<service >> Payment Business Use Case System Use Case Interfaces & Components Messages & Integration Business Goals Supported Business Process Enabled Business Policy's & Rules
- 20. How can you stay out of Debt ?
- 21. Think TCO – Design for Life 98% 94% 92% 84% Application Volatility Low High "DesignforLife"Objectives High 92% *Typical Go Live vs. Long term operational spend over 15 years
- 22. Monitor Debt Technical Integrity – Stack Integrity – Vendor – Skills – Technical debt Business Impact
- 23. Recommendations – Next Week CIO or VP of Applications – Get TCO into the investment process – Get IT Debt on the business radar Head Architect or QA – Examine the most troubled projects to find hotspots – Determine if the organization has architecture/coding standards Project or Development Manager – Identify where you’re leaving debt for post-release – Start a technical debt register
- 24. Recommendations – Next Three Months CIO or VP of Applications – Get a first cut at costs, utilization and risks for the top 100 applications – Assess IT aptitude and engagement for the most important business executives Head Architect or QA – Perform root cause analysis of incidents & SIT defects – Build development guidelines Project or Development Manager – If your using agile development monitor refactoring each sprint and remove technical debt per sprint
- 25. Recommendations – Next 12 Months CIO or VP of Applications – Publish the first "Annual Report on Business Applications“ – Have active application intelligence process Head Architect or QA – Recommend technical debt service levels for internal teams and vendors – Build architectural rules into SDLC stage gates Project or Development Manager – Build a mechanism to track the technical quality of your projects for code and architecture – Set technical quality improvement targets
- 26. Because you can’t manage what you don’t measure Actionable Application Intelligence for IT Executives
- 27. Software Quality Sources: Economics of Software Quality, Jones & Bonsignour; Software Defect Analysis, An Empirical Study of Causes and Costs in the IT Industry, Kristiansen, NTNU; CAST Report on Application Software Health (CRASH) 2012, Curtis, Sappidi, & Szynkarskii; IDC SQAM Forecast PRODUCTION DEFECTS 70% 30% of downtime caused by 10% of defects! 65% Customer Satisfaction Impact 47% Time to Market Impact $3.61 Technical Debt added per line of code 1x 2x 3x 6x CosttoFixOverTime Code SIT UAT Live Structural Functional Economics 90% $
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