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Measuring and managing technical debt with DevOps

CircleCI

There are two primary sources of technical debt: Business requirements including time pressure and changing conditions. Technical leadership problems can include poor technological design or flawed review processes, tools, documentation, and test suites. Using a ratio can be helpful when getting support from the business.

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Navy Acquisition Can Easily Be Fixed

Marv's Smart Future

Such a system would not diminish the importance and responsibility of a Title X PM’s acquisition authority, but it would enable the rest of the “acquisition team” (oversight, contracts, legal, budgeting) to be responsible for a measured element of a program’s success or failure.

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Effective DoD Acquisition Needs Less Noise … Part 2

Marv's Smart Future

This noisy acquisition demise can be traced backward from today’s Planning Programming Budgeting System ( PPBS ), Federal Acquisition Regulations ( FAR ), Operation of the Defense Acquisition System Instruction ( DoD Instruction 5000.2 ), and Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System ( JCIDS ).

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Bringing an AI Product to Market

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Customers contract with the social media company for a certain fixed budget, expecting to achieve certain audience exposure thresholds that can be measured by relevant business metrics. The budget that is actually spent successfully is referred to as fulfillment , and is directly related to the revenue that each customer generates.

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