The Agile Executive



Pictured above are speakers of the forthcoming Cutter Summit. Between the seventeen of us we will cover a broad spectrum of IT topics such as Agile, Enterprise Architecture, Business Strategy, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Governance and Security. Inter-disciplinary seminars, panels and case studies will weave all those threads together to give participants a clear view of the unfolding transformation in IT and of the new way(s) companies are starting to utilize IT. Click here for a details.

As Jim Highsmith and I continue to develop our joint seminar on technical debt for the summit, I would like to give readers of this blog a sense of where we are and ask for feedback. Right now we are considering the following building blocks for the seminar:

• The Nature of Technical Debt
• Technical Debt Metrics
• Monetizing Technical Debt
• Constructing Roadmaps for Paying Back Technical Debt
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation
• A Simple Software Governance Framework
• Schedule in the Simple Governance Framework
• Enlightened Governance
• Baking in Quality One Build at a Time
• How Often Should the Project Team Regroup?
• Multi-Level Governance
• Extending  Technical Debt Techniques to Devops
• Use of Technical Debt Techniques in Agile Portfolio Management
• The Start Afresh Option
• Technical Debt as an Integral Part of a Value Delivery Culture

In the course of going through a subset of these building blocks, we will cover the latest and greatest from the October issue of the Cutter IT Journal on technical debt, present two case studies, and conduct a few group exercises.