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Before You Fund a Software Modernization Program, Get an Objective Baseline

Before investing in software modernization, cloud migration, or replacement, understand the actual condition of the system. An objective baseline helps leaders make better technology and investment decisions.

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Why Agile and DevOps Cannot Fix a Software Architecture That Is Hard to Change

Agile and DevOps can improve how teams deliver software. But when the architecture is tightly coupled, delivery improvements eventually hit a wall. Here is why modularity matters.

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Is AI-Assisted Development Improving Your Software, or Just Producing More of It?

AI coding tools can increase development speed, but faster code production does not automatically mean healthier software. Learn how to assess AI-assisted development across the whole system.

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Architectural Technical Debt: How Software Coupling Drives Cost, Risk, and Slower Change

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Enterprise Architecture Analysis: How to Measure Change Risk Across Applications and Infrastructure

Learn how enterprise architecture dependency analysis reveals hidden change risk across business capabilities, applications, data, and infrastructure - before a modernization project begins.

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The Hidden Cost of Software Complexity: Defects, Developer Productivity, and Engineering Turnover

Architectural complexity is more than a technical issue. Research shows how tightly coupled software systems can increase defects, reduce developer productivity, and contribute to engineering turnover.

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Getting started with data-driven software management

Regain control by measuring productivity and quality to drive results. Why measure software economics? If you can’t measure...

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Primer on design quality, the (more important) half of steering software projects

Durable business agility = product agility * process agility. You need both. Process measures are not enough Most software leadership...

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More honest earned value management of software projects

Process measures are easy to spin and game. Product measures are more honest. Software systems...

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Health of the forest does not equal the health of the individual trees

Practitioners and leadership must objectively understand both code quality and design quality. The...

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Is your software healthy? Process measures tell only part of the story

Quantifying design quality helps to steer projects and improve software economics. Software projects are complex and...

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How honest are your software measures?

Process measures are easy to spin and game. Product measures are more honest. Software systems...

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Quantify design quality. It is the crux of instrumenting a lean transformation.

Business agility is as much a function of architecture as it is of process. Are you wasting too much time in overhead work?...

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Gain control of your software portfolio

Use ROI and risk-based decision making to drive results Executive summary Across a large portfolio...

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Silverthread predictive analytics and benchmarking

Modeling the impact of technical health on software economics Technical health and its impact on software economics The health of...

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Steering software projects more predictably

Measuring design quality provides breakthrough insight for steering. Software delivery outcomes have...

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Is your code structured as you intended? Probably not.

Hidden and unintentional complexity causes waste and overhead. Identify architectural impurities early and consistently...

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Rethinking Quality Metaphors: From Technical Debt to Technical Health

Technical health doesn’t happen by accident. Like the human body, it requires regular attention and care.

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You Can't be agile with Agile™ Process Alone

Walker Royce once told me that if you have Agile™ process but not an agile product - you just "make crap faster." True agility—the ability

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The Blame Game: Why Projects Fail and What Really Causes It

The blame game often targets people first, processes second, and technical health last—but the reality is the opposite

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Applying the Software Development Process: Separation of Concerns with Silverthread's CodeMRI®Suite

In the realm of software engineering, Separation of Concerns (SoC) stands as a transformative methodology,...

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The Importance of Modularity in Software Security and Applying Dependency Analysis for Code Security

In today's interconnected digital landscape, software security has become a paramount concern for organizations across various industries.

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Play Offense: How to Pull the Trigger on a Software Refactor or Rewrite

Measuring design quality can help you act decisively and manage change.

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Improving Software Health for Economic Impact

Dan Sturtevant is CEO and co-founder of Silverthread, the leader in software economics helping...

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What You Should Consider Before Beginning an Application Modernization Project

There are seven suggested strategies when modernizing an application, especially when...

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Viewing Technical Debt from a Financial Perspective

What is Technical Debt? Technical debt is the creation, either purposefully or not, of imperfect or unsound code which increases...

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