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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakfJ2spb3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakfJ2spb3w A pretty good talk from Railsconf a few years back. The debt metaphor
by LargeWu 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakfJ2spb3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XakfJ2spb3w
A pretty good talk from Railsconf a few years
back. The debt metaphor can be thought of as two axis: planned vs unplanned, and low vs high interest.
If you explain to the stakeholder that by not paying down technical debt, they're only paying off the interest, but they have to keep paying it forever, perhaps that will sink in. The opportunity cost of those interest payments is profit-generating work. By failing to address technical debt they are constraining the business.
- james_s_tayler 7y agoI've come to adopt the metaphor of Technical Tax instead for this reason. Technical Debt is something for which you have a repayment plan and a timeline on which it will be repayed and you are making the repayments. Technical Tax is everything else. And your tax rate will keep climbing higher and higher unless you make a change at the policy level.