“The only lasting fix for technical debt is for management to empower the IT side of an organization to start saying no to all the requests for shiny new things, and focus on making what an organization already has more robust, more secure and futureproof.”
One could argue that technical debt is really just regular debt. If can see that, then you also will see that federal fiscal and monetary policy are really the long term fix, not IT departments saying “No” which of course they already do.
The whole problem is that it isn't. If it were regular debt, it would be visible on balance sheets instead of just ruining everything behind the scenes.
Like cost per user for infra? operating cost per hour, by hour? like that...
You need an accountant embedded in your department to just watch and track spend and map it to something. Preferably they are in tech and told to hold product teams feet to the fire.
One could argue that technical debt is really just regular debt. If can see that, then you also will see that federal fiscal and monetary policy are really the long term fix, not IT departments saying “No” which of course they already do.