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Is technical debt -- taking short-term shortcuts at the expense of more stable long-term options -- a bigger problem than it was before 2020? Who knows? It has been around for decades, but impossible to see or measure. It's likely to be more pervasive -- with the recent rush to digital spurred by COVID-19, the overhang from technical debt may be more imposing than it's ever been. A survey released last year by Software AG found 78% of organizations have accrued more technical debt during the pandemic.

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While it looks as if IT leaders are aware they have this overhang, technical debt isn't so easily detectable. "The problem is that most technical debt is secret -- an unknown and an undefined off-balance-sheet liability," according to Wayne Sadin, technology analyst, quoted in a Cutter Consortium perspective. 

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