Tag: tech debt
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More on tech debt
In response to a discussion at work, i wrote some further thoughts on tech debt captured here. (See my earlier post Tech Debt Tradeoffs) Timeline/Context I want to help people explicitly consider the timeline for the return on investment. So, for example, if you are going to release your big project in 3 weeks, certain options will be off the table. But, if you have 3 months they might be clearly superior to what you’d do in the 3-week situation.
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Tech debt tradeoffs
NOTE: please also see my followup post [More on tech debt]({{ relref . “more_on_tech_debt.md” }}). Tech Debt and the Race against Time: As I often say, we should all understand that there is good technical debt and bad technical debt. In real life, I have a house with a mortgage but don’t consider my mortgage bad. Sure, all else being equal, i’d rather not have a mortgage to pay. But, not all else IS equal.
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