Technical Debt & Economics
85 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
The €250K Migration That Didn't Need to Happen
The €250K migration wasn't a technology project. It was an expensive way to avoid hard conversations.
Read →mise en place for data teams
Skip your prep and service falls apart. Every chef knows this. Most data teams learn it the hard way.
Read →The Alignment Tax: What Misalignment Costs Per Sprint
Your team's velocity isn't slow because they're bad. It's slow because they're building the wrong thing right.
Read →The AI Readiness Checklist Nobody Uses
Every company has an AI roadmap. Almost none have passed their own readiness checklist.
Read →Platform Review: What I Find in Week One
In week one of every platform review, I find the same five problems. Your company probably has at least three.
Read →We Shipped Fast. We Paid Slowly
The problem isn't shipping fast. It's not being able to fix fast.
Read →Technical Debt Is Like Credit Card Interest - It Compounds
Think of technical debt like a credit card. Your data platform maxed it out years ago. Your engineers? They're stuck paying the minimum …
Read →Data Consultancy vs Data Products - The Expensive Confusion
A data team that only consults will never scale. A data team that only builds will never be used.
Read →Why Your AI Project Failed at the Data Layer
Rule of thumb: AI success is 20% model and 80% data infrastructure.
Read →Legacy Modernization: Break or Transform
Some legacy systems should be replaced. Most should just be wrapped.
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