Words have meaning, even in IT

Words have meaning, even in IT

IT loves buzzwords. But it is now becoming frightfully common for analysts, vendors and even other IT specialists to take established tech phrases and assign them entirely new meanings. (And to be clear, none of these folk ever spell out that that’s what they are doing.) Case in point: “Tech debt”. That term has meant the same thing for many years: it describes coding shortcuts (either to cut costs or to speed completion or both) that may help i…