The Cost of Technical Debt: What ISV CTOs say about their #1 modernization regret
Technical debt is a silent business emergency. Most ISV companies don't notice it building until up to 80% of their engineering budget is consumed just keeping existing systems alive, leaving nothing left for growth, new features, or competitive response. The blog covers five key mistakes ISV CTOs regret most: waiting too long (debt compounds), misreading the scope (a language upgrade isn't a fix), attempting a big bang overhaul (high risk, low certainty), poor vendor choices (consultants fix symptoms, not root causes), and losing experienced developers (institutional knowledge walks out the door with them). The solution is the Technical Debt Assessment, which is a board-ready report quantifying where the debt sits, what it's costing today, a prioritised remediation path, and the risk of doing nothing over the next 12 months.