AI Code and Maintainability: What We Actually Measure
AI writes code. The question isn’t whether to allow it, but how to ensure it doesn’t erode your software’s maintainability.
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AI-Assisted Coding: Increasing The Need For Human Oversight
AI-assisted coding is reshaping software development. Discover why human oversight and quality tooling are critical for long term code maintainability.
Why You Need Reliable Progress Indicators For External Software Projects
For many organizations, managing external software vendors is one of the most challenging aspects of delivering successful digital projects on time and on budget.
How software managers benefit from benchmarking
Learn how BonCode’s benchmarking helps organizations measure software quality, guide investment, and drive continuous improvement.
How To Explain Software Health To Management
Learn how BonCode measures software maintainability, why structure matters, and how one score helps engineers and leaders align on quality.
3 Reasons You Should Measure & Manage Technical Debt
Technical debt isn’t just for developers. Discover three ways it impacts business productivity, continuity, and accountability, and how to get in control.
Simple Metrics To Detect Software Team Inefficiencies
Learn how churn vs. growth metrics reveal hidden inefficiencies in software development, helping you ask smarter questions and optimize resources.
Why Code Quality Metrics Are Like A Canary In A Coal Mine
Code metrics are early warnings, not performance goals. Learn why BonCode’s insights help prevent stalled projects before they become delivery failures.
How A 3% Code Tweak Unlocked A 300% Increase In Innovation
See how a 3% maintainability boost helped one team triple innovation, cut bugs in half, and onboard faster, all with the team they already had.
Polish Or Productivity? The Value Of Measuring Churn Data As Part Of Code Quality
Discover why measuring churn alongside code quality reveals hidden blockers, misaligned priorities, and helps restore delivery momentum in large projects.
Set Smarter Priorities With Software Monitoring
Discover how software monitoring helps tech leaders set better priorities using real-time insights into teams, code quality, and process performance.
How Software Governance Leads To Better Organizational Alignment
Discover how software governance bridges technical teams and business leaders, boosting quality, reducing risk, and improving ROI for developers.
The Number One Reason For Subpar Software Revealed
Not long ago, I was called in by a company experiencing significant growing pains. On paper, they looked like a healthy scale-up: 12 years old, solid market presence, and a newly appointed CEO with a strong commercial vision. Brought in to drive the next wave of growth, he had an ambitious product roadmap. So what… The Number One Reason For Subpar Software Revealed
Why No One Cares About Software Quality Until It’s Too Late
BonCode CEO, Jan Willem Klerkx, has a confession to make: “To be honest, I don’t care about software quality. I really don’t.” Wait, what? Yes, you read that right! Coming from a consultancy firm that specializes in assessing and monitoring software quality, that statement might sound a little odd. In fact, it’s precisely this conflict… Why No One Cares About Software Quality Until It’s Too Late
Business critical software requires governance
Go beyond dev-focused tools. BonCode delivers independent code quality insights that help leadership manage risk and drive better software decisions.
Put A Circle Of Trust Around Your Software Systems – You Won’t Regret It
Independent fact-based insights into software quality can help you build a circle of trust around your custom-coded systems. Read our latest blog to learn more.
Governance For AI – Avoid The Pitfalls Of Patchwork Code
Just as electric motorization found its way into almost every household appliance, AI is appearing in all kinds of tech. Governance for AI is essential.
Software Handovers – The Impact On Innovation
Many companies rely on third-party development teams to build and maintain their custom-coded software systems. External teams might manage, refine, and extend a system for a period of time – from months to years – but at some point responsibility for the software will revert to the owning organization. When that happens, some businesses encounter… Software Handovers – The Impact On Innovation
BonCode Exists To Help Your Digital Body Stay Healthy
The amount of data consumed and generated by today’s society is almost immeasurable. And it’s growing all the time. From tech giants to local businesses, every organization is now an information-processing entity. Data flows through systems, fueling decision-making, and enabling growth. It’s the digital lifeblood of modern businesses. But just as a human body needs… BonCode Exists To Help Your Digital Body Stay Healthy
Why External Software Expertise Saves Money
Modernizing your tech stack is a high-stakes decision. Hiring external experts can help safeguard against poor decision-making and ensure long-term success.
The Boy Scout Rule And Why A Codebase Is Not A Camp Site
The Scouts have a rule: “Always leave the camp site cleaner than you found it”. Robert C. Martin took this and applied it to software development. Here’s why.
Why Technical Debt Is Not A Technical Problem
In this blog, we uncover the importance of minimizing technical debt by balancing commercial needs with creative problem-solving in software development.
Making The Business Case For Data-Driven Insights Into Source Code
Here are 4 different perspectives on the value of measuring software quality and how BonCode’s new digital tool – an ROI calculator – could help.
Here’s How To Cut The Cost Of Owning Custom Software
In this blog, we explain how well-maintained software is cheaper to run and easier for developers to innovate and iterate on, lowering the cost of ownership.
Why You Need More Than An Expert Opinion For Technical Due Diligence In M&A
Technical due diligence needs more than an expert opinion: fact-based insights into custom code are essential for mitigating risk in mergers and acquisitions.
Top 5 Most-Read BonCode Blogs From 2024
The BonCode blog shares insights on how to manage and mitigate risk, reduce technical debt, and boost the quality of custom-coded software. Read it today.
How Source Code Analysis Can Help You Identify Organizational Issues
In this blog, we explain how source code analysis can provide factual, actionable insights that help you optimize business operations.
How Source Code Analysis Can Be Used To Improve Project Management
In this blog, we explore how source code analysis can be leveraged to improve project management and monitor productivity in large organizations.
Agree on your Definition of Quality – or everyone will fight for himself
Without clear requirements, how can you measure the performance and quality of a software system in a meaningful way? Here’s why defining quality has value.
Why Software Architects Are Important People
The best way to understand the structure – and the maintainability – of your codebase is to perform a technical review in the form of a software assessment.