During 2024, we shared a range of insights to help you manage and mitigate risk, reduce technical debt, and boost the quality of custom-coded software. To close out the year, we’ve rounded up our top 5 most-read blogs of 2024. Consider this essential reading for anyone involved with the trends, challenges, and solutions that are shaping software quality right now.
1. Lessons Learned From Japan
A growing number of companies in Japan are implementing our solutions for assessing and monitoring software quality. To better understand the country’s software development culture, we felt the best place to start was Japan itself. This also gave us the chance to strengthen our partnership with BonCode’s main selling partner in Japan – CTC – and learn more from local experts. In this article, Koen Naarding shares his observations and three key learnings from Japan.
2. How Companies Manage Technical Debt
If your company’s custom software is accumulating technical debt – and you do nothing about it – at some unknown point in the future, software development will come to a halt. Rather than waiting for this to happen, it’s better to take a proactive approach to managing it. In this blog, we explore how technical debt accumulates, why it happens, and how to tackle it.
3. Why Technical Debt Is Now A Boardroom IssueÂ
On the theme of technical debt, we’ve also covered the impact that disruptive technologies are having on traditional industries such as banking, financial services, and telecommunications. That’s partly because they’re not saddled with excessive technical debt. Free from this burden, these new and innovative companies are well-positioned to seize market share. And that’s one reason why technical debt is now a boardroom issue.
4. Increase Velocity In Custom-Coded Software Projects
Less technical debt results in a more maintainable code base. And that unlocks other competitive advantages, like increased development velocity. The secret? By monitoring and addressing the maintainability of your custom code, you empower your developers to be more productive. Not only does velocity give your dev teams greater adaptability to changing requirements – things like new functionality, enhancements, and improvements – it enables you to more easily predict delivery timelines and manage stakeholder expectations.
5. Entanglement Is A Hidden Threat To Your Software
If you have custom-coded software that needs to evolve alongside your business needs, customer demands, or advances in technology, then entanglement is a potential threat to your business-critical systems. Catching the early warning signs, and taking corrective action, helps organizations to avoid lasting damage to business-critical systems – and core business operations. In this blog, we uncover what it is, why it’s a problem, and how to fix it.
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So what have we learned? Our top 5 most-read blogs of 2024 reveal that tackling vulnerabilities, optimizing productivity, and ensuring high-quality code remained ever-present priorities for software managers in 2024. As we step into 2025, the demand for secure, efficient development will only grow. Stay with us for more insights and strategies to keep your teams productive and your code secure.
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