Re:What Ticketmaster is doing about technical debt
by nickpsecurity on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @05:31PM
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Seems nobody has reviewed the actual article... So, I will: it's great. I could see this model, esp illustrations, getting somewhere with lay management that run things by the numbers and ROI. I'd like to try it on bankers given they're experts on getting people stuck in debt. Last thing they want to do is be caught in their own type of trap. I'd like to see more work like this, esp improving manual measurement areas.
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Re:What Ticketmaster is doing about technical debt
by goorpyguy on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @06:49PM
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I'll agree with you there, I like seeing the thought process that fed into this. We've had similar experiences having difficulty explaining why certain things are painful and then quantifying "how painful" and why. This seems to really try to address that, at least as a first step.
Re:What Ticketmaster is doing about technical debt
by lectrick on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @07:01PM
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Can you summarize how they quantitatively measure aspects of tech debt? Because that seems to be a hard problem and I kind of don't believe that they have pulled off this feat
Re:What Ticketmaster is doing about technical debt
by nickpsecurity on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @07:38PM
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It's described on the page along with qualitative measurements they use. They used each where it made sense to produce something pretty solid for management to work with. The alternatives are currently... I don't know any...
So, until I see them, I think they did a good job going from using a vague concept to practical metrics. Baby steps, for sure, but with immediate, payoff potential.
Re:What Ticketmaster is doing about technical debt
by dreamfactory2 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:21PM
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not that hard, they use http://www.howtomeasureanything.com/