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Right on. Also if you continue to build on top of technical debt, you are essentially taking risk and accruing interest in the form of everything that will requ
by tracer4201 8y ago
Right on. Also if you continue to build on top of technical debt, you are essentially taking risk and accruing interest in the form of everything that will require on going maintenance or could fail spectacularly depending on your ability to repay the debt.
- LaserToy 8y agoA lot of things can then be explained as a debt. If you ate a cake you were not suppose to - you are putting weight debt. Watched Netflix instead of Ted talks - knowledge debt. Too many Ted talks - entertainment debt. I can go on and on.
- tracer4201 8y agoThat’s not really the message I was trying to convey. Not all debt is the same. If your decisions have tangible impact on business outcomes, your company brand, or morale, then anything that adds risk or debt should be weighed carefully as such. You should also weigh personal behaviors and decisions in terms of debt and risk, but that’s orthogonal to the topic of business and engineering decisions.