Bitergia Analytics
When to upgrade: Introducing technical lag in software deployment
Like technical debt is measuring the cost of not doing thing the way they should be done in the first place, technical lag measures the cost of not upgrading to the ideal release of a system. Of course, ideal may vary from situation to situation: it may be the latest available version, the most stable, or the one with less known unfixed bugs or vulnerabilities. So, technical debt proposition is: “let’s measure how far away our deployment is from the ideal deployment we would like to have”