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Technical debt is just business debt, it’s risk to the business if people don’t understand it or it’s hard to maintain. Technical debt is a terrible term becau
by jpswade 6y ago
Technical debt is just business debt, it’s risk to the business if people don’t understand it or it’s hard to maintain.
Technical debt is a terrible term because it implies it’s just a technical problem, but it’s a business decision.
- juniper_strong 6y agoIt's a terrible term because the technical people think they are talking to the business people in their terms, but when the business side of the operation hears the term technical debt, they ask some questions and what they hear is that they are issuing non-recourse debt. What the technical side of the operation wants to say is "We're making short term decision that are going to hurt us in the long term", and what the business side of the operation hears is "This is free money".