Technical debt? Who cares?

February 25, 2022

The inner quality of software systems is seen as increasingly important. Inner software quality – these are the characteristics of the software, which are mainly seen by the developers of the software: good code quality, simple architecture, consistent design, testability, etc.

Markus Harrer, on his personal blog:

At the same time, software developers build up more and more so-called technical debt every day – exactly the opposite of inner quality.

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Markus Harrer Senior Consultant

Markus Harrer is a software modernization consultant who’s passionate about improving the way we do software development. He specialized in the analysis of software data and systems to show the underlying problems of the symptoms we face on the surface. He is an active contributor in communities on the topics of software modernization (nowadays also mit AI), software analytics, software architecture, and Wardley Maps. He is also an accredited trainer for the iSAQB Foundation Level and the Advanced Level Module IMPROVE and is iSAQB Foundation Level certified. He is the author of the books “Strategic Moves - Evolving software systems the smart way” (currently only available in German) and “Quality Tactics - Developing Quality-Driven Solution Strategies for Software Architectures” as well as co-author of the book “Software Reviews - Identifying Risks and Problems in Software”.