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Technical debt is also more costly to pay in terms of morale. Slogging through painful refactors for weeks on end can pretty quickly make me start to resent my
by ericmcer 9y ago
Technical debt is also more costly to pay in terms of morale. Slogging through painful refactors for weeks on end can pretty quickly make me start to resent my job and question whether this is a product I want to work on.
- flukus 9y agoMy morale goes up if I ever get to actually repay some of that debt. More often than not developers are discouraged from paying it back, having to add new features or quick hacks instead, making it worse. In my company we can't spends weeks refactoring because there is no new business functionality to tie it to and IME that is the norm. At the moment I'm working on a story that requires a massive refactor of a core process, I'm loving the process of cleaning up the spaghetti but I'm not sure if the business will accept the risk of the changes.