‘Chronodebt’: The lose/lose situation few CIOs can escape

‘Chronodebt’: The lose/lose situation few CIOs can escape

Chronodebt, often but erroneously referred to as “technical debt,” is defined (by me) as the accumulated cost of remediating all IT assets that aren’t what engineering standards say they should be. Managingit is essential for keeping IT out of trouble. Need an object lesson? How about the FAA’s newly publicized integration architecture, which has a transport layer that relies on 3 ½” so-called “rigid floppy disks” complemented with encoded paper…