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# Stay Ahead with Expert Insights

Discover practical guidance, industry commentary, and data-driven strategies to modernize software effectively.

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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.

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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...

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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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### Software Risk & Readiness

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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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