STRATEGIES FOR TACKLING "TECHNICAL DEBT" IN YOUR COMPANY

Strategies you can employ to overcome these challenges:

• Identify and Prioritise - Focus on the most critical issues that will drive the most value first.
• Integrate Debt Management into Your Workflow - Maintain a balance between new development and debt reduction.
• Educate & Train Your Team - Foster a culture in your organization of continuous improvement. Encourage learning, celebrate successes and reflect on the past with a view to drive ongoing enhancements.
• Improve and Update Documentation - It provides a reference for current and future team members.
• Update and Refactor System - Make small and manageable changes for improving quality.
• Optimize Security Practices – It helps to maintain system reliability and performance
• Manage dependencies - Tracking ensures compatibility and security

Author

Richard Huggins

Richard joined us in 1997 as an apprentice IT engineer conducting on-site installations of CAD workstations and Microsoft and Novell network environments. After a brief spell away to travel the world, he returned to work on our helpdesk supporting our CAD customers. In 2007, Richard was promoted to Support Services Manager and worked in this role until 2016 when he decided to acquire new skills and widen his IT industry knowledge and left to work as an Operational Manager for one of the UK’s Top 20 leading Information Security companies. In 2019 Richard once again returned to Symetri as Head of Support and Customer Success to further improve the Symetri customer support experience and is now responsible for the IT Solutions division.