Your software vendor says everything is fine. That is not enough anymore.
Even good vendors make compromises under pressure. Learn why independent software oversight is becoming standard, and how it builds healthier vendor relationships.
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Your software is slowing you down. You just can’t prove it yet.
Developers can spend up to 80% of their time on maintenance. Learn why software quality is the invisible bottleneck holding your business back, and what to do.
Why AI-Generated Code Makes SBOMs Essential
AI speeds up software delivery, so visibility matters more than ever. Learn why SBOMs are essential for trust, governance, and risk management.
Why AI Alone Falls Short For Serious Software
AI is dominating conversations in boardrooms and technology teams alike. But software development has seen this story before. So what can business leaders learn from previous technology trends?
Closing The Governance Gap For AI In Software Development
AI-enhanced software development often sees faster delivery of new features. But as AI adoption accelerates, governance lags behind, creating hidden risks that are difficult to detect.
Why Sooner Is Better For Software Due Diligence In Exits And Acquisitions
Learn how pre-acquisition due diligence helps identify software risks early, protect valuation, and strengthen your negotiation position.
Why Accountability For Business Software Starts At The Top
Learn why executive oversight of custom-coded software is essential for managing risk, accountability, and business performance.
Balancing Cost And Accountability In Software Engineering
Speed and feature velocity often dominate discussions about software delivery. As Harm Garvelink, CCO at Boncode, emphasizes, the true cost of software is rarely determined by what ships first, it’s defined by what’s under the hood.
Increase Your Digital Transformation ROI
Learn how governance, code quality insight, and strong foundations help organizations increase digital transformation ROI and avoid costly technical pitfalls.
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.
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. The newly appointed CEO had a strong commercial vision. Brought in to drive the next wave of growth, he had an ambitious product roadmap. So what was the issue? The tech team couldn’t deliver it.
Why No One Cares About Software Quality Until It’s Too Late
Software quality doesn’t matter until it gets in the way of your business. If your product can’t scale, if it slows down delivery, if you can’t onboard developers – you have a quality problem. Until that point, nobody really cares about quality.
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 for a while, but at some point responsibility for the software will revert to the owning organization. Then, some businesses encounter unexpected challenges.
BonCode Exists To Help Your Digital Body Stay Healthy
Information systems – databases, integrations, software, and apps – are the brains, muscles, lungs, and heart of an organization. At BonCode, our purpose is to help you keep these vital digital organs 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.