I agree with your model, but I also find Fowler’s model on tech debt helpful: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html https://martinfowler.com

I agree with your model, but I also find Fowler’s model on tech debt helpful: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html It’s sort of one level “deeper” that the one you use. For me it is helpful because it allows to work with temporality in decisions on tech debt, ie “do we have time to do this right or do we need to get sh*it done now and pay later”. This is valuable because it allows you to work with tradeoffs in architecture and design. Tradeoffs are inevitable in SW design and sometimes some thing is gonna be more important that not taking on tech debt [right now]. The important thing is to remember that debt has to be payed off.