The Tech Debt Burndown Podcast

Oct 03 2023 17 ep. 27 mins 17
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Chris Swan and Nick Selby, two long-time technology industry and information security leaders, discuss issues related to reducing technical debt.

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S2E4-Gene Spafford

Oct 03 2023 32 mins  

S2E3-Jamie Dobson

Mar 21 2023 29 mins  

S2E2 Andy Ellis

Feb 13 2023 27 mins  

S2E1 Krzysztof "Chris" Daniel

Jan 09 2023 41 mins  
Krzysztof - Chris - Daniel talks to Nick and Chris about Wardley Mapping and better corporate strategies.

S1 E12 - Yosef Lehrman on the Executive Order

Aug 08 2021 32 mins  
In the Season 1 Finale, Yosef Lehrman talks to Nick and Chris about the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity.

S1E11- Allan Friedman and SBOMs

Jun 20 2021 27 mins  
Allan Friedman of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has long been one of the world's leading proponents of Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM. With the President's Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, SBOM has begun to receive the wider attention it deserves, and Allan joins Chris and Nick to discuss SBOM and how it can hel

S1 E10 - Eoin Woods on Identifying Tech Debt

Jun 13 2021 25 mins  
Eoin Woods has developed quite a bit of software, and created and dealt with quite a lot of technical debt. He is CTO at Endava, and co-author of two software architecture books. On the Tech Debt Burndown he joins Chris and Nick to talk about his role in the International Conference on Technical Debt and some of the research highlighted in the virtual 2021 edition of that conferenc

Episode 9 - Observability With Charity Majors

Jun 06 2021 31 mins  
Charity Majors joins Nick and Chris to discuss the difference between observability and metrics, some great insights into good debt (like college loans) versus bad debt (like charging stuff we want on a credit card), and thoughts on efficiency.

Episode 9a: Memorial Day/Spring Bank Holiday Weekend

May 29 2021 1 mins  
With the US closed for Memorial Day weekend, and the UK closed for Spring Bank Holiday, we're firing up the grills, and pausing to reflect. In the next few episodes, we'll discuss toil and build times with Charity Majors, Tech Debt burndown strategies with Eoin Woods, the Biden Executive Order with Yosef Lehrman, SBOMs with Allan Friedman, and much, much more!

Episode 8: The Six Ways with Olivier Jacques

May 23 2021 34 mins  
On this episode, Chris and Nick are joined by Olivier Jacques, DevOps transformation principal at DXC Technology, who discusses his article, Six Strategies to Set Time Aside to Improve. The six approaches capture some very insightful observations into technical debt burndown.