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📡 What’s a Tech Radar?

A Tech Radar, as described by ThoughtWorks, is a tool used to help technology teams assess and understand emerging technologies, techniques, platforms, and tools. It is structured as a circular visual representation divided into four quadrants and four concentric rings:

  1. Quadrants: These represent different domains of technology, such as Techniques, Tools, Platforms, and Languages & Frameworks.
  2. Rings: These indicate the maturity and level of adoption recommended for each technology:
    • Adopt: Technologies that are recommended for use.
    • Trial: Technologies worth pursuing but with caution.
    • Assess: Technologies worth exploring with a clear understanding of the risks.
    • Hold: Technologies that are not recommended for new projects.

🎯 Objectives

The Technical Radar should contribute to this bet by:

  • giving more visibility to current innovation (and also current technical foundations)
  • adding clear transitions with expectations between different steps of innovation
  • increasing accountability of owners