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> Code quality != business value I don't think that's a given: in some circumstances code quality absolutely is business value. It might be better to say code
by guiriduro 8y ago
> Code quality != business value
I don't think that's a given: in some circumstances code quality absolutely is business value. It might be better to say code quality can be, but isn't always, business value. As ever, context is the deciding factor.
- blauditore 8y agoWell, I would say technical debt is similar to the classic kind of debt: It may give you short-term advantage (liquidity), but on the long term, there's interest on it. If not paid off, it grows exponentially. So yeah, technical debt can be used as a tool, but it doesn't come for free.
- williamdclt 8y agoI really don't think so, apart from exceptional case (if you're selling your code to another dev maybe), code quality is never value to the user. That's not to say that good code quality is useless of course, but the usefulness of code quality is not in the business value.