> For a manager, a code base high in technical debt means that feature delivery slows to a crawl, which creates a lot of frustration and awkward moments in conv

> For a manager, a code base high in technical debt means that feature delivery slows to a crawl, which creates a lot of frustration and awkward moments in conversation about business capability. For a developer, this frustration is even more acute. Nobody likes working with a significant handicap and being unproductive day after day, and that is exactly what this sort of codebase means for developers. The very same holds for managers and teams in companies that need to deal with organizational debt: https://steveblank.com/2015/05/19/organizational-debt-is-like-technical-debt-but-worse/ https://steveblank.com/2015/05/19/organizational-debt-is-lik...