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Shipping tech debt should be compared to the realistic alternative which is never shipping at all. The solution is not to ship slower, but to attract a better t
by dustingetz 5y ago
Shipping tech debt should be compared to the realistic alternative which is never shipping at all. The solution is not to ship slower, but to attract a better team and then retain them. They say the CEO's #1 job is recruiting and this is why. Actually more important is growing your revenue faster, if revenue compounds faster than debt then you're good!
- whateveracct 5y agoI mean you can also ship a lil slower. Startup founders and management types are obsessed with optimizing dev time at a day/hour granularity though in my personal experience, so it's a lost cause.
- ako 5y agoCan you really ship slower? In the end it’s a winner takes all market, and AWS needs to out-innovate azure to win. And as customers of AWS we’re all looking forward to the next re:invent for new features, and we’re voting with our money buying huge amounts of AWS services. Also, as a potential employee, I would always sign with the company that has positive cashflow through customers that pay for shipped value, rather than a company with a great code base, but a bad sales track record.