Technical Debt - The Current Research, Causal Factors, And How To Prevent It.

"Technical Debt - The Current Research, Causal Factors, And How To Prevent It." by Anthony Dang

After last year's very enjoyable session, Anthony has kindly volunteered to present his new talk to the group on Technical Debt.

The issue of Technical Debt is much more complex than just bad code. The current state of research has identified many Technical Debt types.

These types cover areas such as Code, Architecture, Documentation, Testing, Defects, Infrastructure, Design, Versioning, and more!

To make matters worse, the emerging field of Machine Learning has introduced additional types of Technical Debt, such as fairness, and trustworthiness.

In this presentation, we will present the current state of research, answerings questions such as:

What happens when project managers are given ownership of Technical Debt?

What type of Technical Debt does package usage cause?

How do Community smells impact Technical Debt?

Is Technical Debt actually mitigated by design patterns?

What is the financial cost of Technical Debt?
...and more!

We will discuss Technical Debt types, factors that can lead to Technical Debt, and what actions can be performed to prevent specific types of Technical Debt.

Anthony Dang
Head of Development at ISS Liquid Metrix
Anthony has worked in web development since 2007. He is active in the open source community (in particular the Umbraco CMS), and Umbraco MVP, writes tech articles, and is a regular organiser & presenter at conferences and tech meetups. He lives and breathes automation and development processes, and is a vocal proponent of Behaviour/Test Driven Development.

Anthony has experience in building high performing remote production teams spanning multiple countries. He is an Agile/Scrum/Kanban enthusiast, and is always looking for ways to make development more efficient and enjoyable. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he is now based in London.

We will be online from about 6:45pm and the Talk will start at 7pm as usual.

Please use the following link:

meet.google.com/wmf-zzan-qgv

See you there, Gavin