1、Build your tech and balance your debt Why balancingnot eliminatingtech debt is key to reinventing with a modern digital coreContentsPage 0305PrefaceUnderstanding tech debt in the age of generative AI About the authors Page 0610Catch-22:Generative AI and technical debtWhat is technical debt?Accenture

2、 and GitHub:tackling tech debt in the software development lifecycle Page 2328How to get started on balancing your tech debtConclusionHow Accenture can help GlossaryPage 1122 Three actions for balancing technical debtAction 1:Focus on the principalAction 2:Create an inventory and trace debt to sourc

3、eAction 3:Use the right metrics to measure technical debtBuild your tech and balance your debt2A there is one topic that comes up in most of my conversations with chief information officers(CIOs),its technical debt.Tech leaders are certainly concerned about tech debts impact on costsbut they are eve

4、n more concerned about how it may be holding back their business PrefaceManaging technical debt in the age of generative AITechnical debts impact on tight IT budgets is one thing.The more strategic concern is that tech debt is affecting their ability to create new business and it is sapping their ab

5、ility to respond to shifting market conditions.The sense among many tech leaders is that we are riding a surge of tech debtan impression that is confirmed by the results of our research in our Reinventing with a Digital Core report1.In the US alone,tech debt costs$2.41 trillion a year and would requ

6、ire$1.52 trillion to fix,according to a 2022 report2.Whats driving this?A combination of factors.Technology departments are moving to always-on,evergreen IT solutions.As technology is changing so rapidly,tech leaders find they are working to faster response times:issues that they previously would sp