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It's a story we've probably all heard many times before, but I give you a story from the old Apple days: -2000 lines of code http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.p
by patrickyeon 15y ago
It's a story we've probably all heard many times before, but I give you a story from the old Apple days: -2000 lines of code http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Lin...
- arethuza 15y agoPeople often talk about technical debt, but arguably what projects need is an entire balance sheet of assets and liabilities. I don't mean this literally, but just having the idea of debt doesn't quite sum up the possible state of a project in the same way that a balance sheet sums up the financial state of a company.
- thwarted 15y agoTechnical debt can be roughly calculated from the number of open tickets that say something should be revisited and the number of times TODO and FIXME appear in the source code. Of course, if you don't ticket things that need to be revisited or write those comments, you have incalculable technical debt, which is even worse.