Tech Debt Burndown Podcast

Chris and Nick on Testing and Policy Debt

Chris and Nick talk to Georg Schleiermacher

Chris and Nick on Overambitious AI Intern

Chris and Nick on Cloud vs On Premises

Chris and Nick talk to Sarah Wells

Chris and Nick talk to Matthew Skelton

Chris and Nick chat about AI coding assistants

Chris and Nick chat about Tech Debt as a Service

Nick and Chris talk to Gene Spafford.

Nick and Chris talk to Jamie Dobson.

Nick and Chris talk to Andy Ellis about using the right language with the business, and supporting how they manage risk.

Chris and Nick chat to Krysztof (Chris) Daniel about Strategy and Wardley Maps

Yosef Lehrman talks to Nick and Chris about the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity

Allan Friedman of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has long been one of the world's leading proponents of Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM. With the President's Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, SBOM has begun to receive the wider attention it deserves, and Allan joins Chris and Nick to discuss SBOM and how it can help with tec...

Eoin Woods has developed quite a bit of software, and created and dealt with quite a lot of technical debt. He is CTO at Endava, and co-author of two software architecture books. On the Tech Debt Burndown he joins Chris and Nick to talk about his role in the International Conference on Technical Debt and some of the research highlighted in the virtual 2021 edition of that conference, as well as hi...

Charity Majors joins Nick and Chris to discuss the difference between observability and metrics, some great insights into good debt (like college loans) versus bad debt (like charging stuff we want on a credit card), and thoughts on efficiency.

With the US closed for Memorial Day weekend, and the UK closed for Spring Bank Holiday, we're firing up the grills, and pausing to reflect. In the next few episodes, we'll discuss toil and build times with Charity Majors, Tech Debt burndown strategies with Eoin Woods, the Biden Executive Order with Yosef Lehrman, SBOMs with Allan Friedman, and much, much more!

On this episode, Chris and Nick are joined by Olivier Jacques, DevOps transformation principal at DXC Technology, who discusses his article, Six Strategies to Set Time Aside to Improve. The six approaches capture some very insightful observations into technical debt burndown.

Chris and Nick welcome Kenn White, from MongoDB, to discuss Mongo's enabling teams and how they cut through the BS to help engineers stay in the flow and be happier. Then they welcome Bill Pelletier, to talk about some of the unique challenges faced by medical device and Software as a Medical Device makers.

Lots of things get improved by building continuous delivery pipelines and then going back to them and iteratively making improvements. Pipelines themselves can be a place where we accrue tech debt - even at the entry point to those pipelines. So let's look at branching strategies.

How do you measure technical debt? This week, Chris and Nick discuss the metrics around technical debt, and why there are so few of them.

When Wendy Nather began work as an information security analyst, she started asking her CISO friends a question: 'If you just took a CISO job at a company that had no security, what would you buy?' The answers fascinated her. Now at Duo (Cisco), she set out to formalize research that was released as Cisco Secure’s Security Outcomes Study. Wendy discusses the process on this week's podc...

We've been hearing about Supply Chain vulnerabilities quite a bit lately, from Solar Winds to CodeCov. How do these relate to technical debt? Ah, that's a complicated question, because each of its components are discussing complex things. In this episode, Chris and Nick try to hash it out and sort through what's important.

Episode 2: Ian Amit of Cimpress