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> The phrase technical debt is a red flag itself and probably should never be used. I think the counter argument is that not everything needs to get turned int

> The phrase technical debt is a red flag itself and probably should never be used. I think the counter argument is that not everything needs to get turned into a negotiation around justifying business value. Each developer should just by default get 25% of the year to improve the code they're responsible for. If a developer wants to spend 6 or 9 months one year doing some big refactor then that's one thing, but it's not a good work environment if there needs to be weeks of meetings every time someone wants to fix deprecations so that they can upgrade some library or whatever.

tonystubblebine 6y ago
Oh for sure. I believe this 100%. A lot of the root cause of technical debt is inability to prioritize. Every stake holder in the company wants to hear that their project is being worked on and so everyone is working in parallel and thus there are tons of meetings for coordination and status. And if everyone would just slow down they would actually move a lot faster and could afford to bake in slack time for craftsmanship.