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However, now that interest is low future discounting should also be lower so writing maintainable software should start to look better.
by cjfd 7y ago
However, now that interest is low future discounting should also be lower so writing maintainable software should start to look better.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoI have occasionally tried to apply option theory (Black Scholes) to software feature selection. But to be honest the cost / inaccuracy of estimation is so large I think it outweighs any option advantages - but dammit it should work !
- TeMPOraL 7y agoI don't think so. Tech debt isn't like real debt, you don't have conspicuous interest rates set by the market or state. Also, "future discounting" of both engineers and managers is driven by career options (i.e. promotions and job-hopping), which don't directly depend on interest rates.
- tremon 7y agoyou don't have conspicuous interest rates set by the market or state Not explicitly, but you could say that the interest rate on technical debt is determined by the rate of change in connected components (be it build-time or run-time dependencies, data producers or data consumers).
- jacques_chester 7y agoI'm pretty sure there would be some way to financialise tech debt. You are deliberately incurring future costs in order to realise present benefits.