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It does have to be paid off. A business's technical division can, and inevitably will, become insolvent due to the accumulation of that debt. I take it you've n
by dougpa 5y ago
It does have to be paid off. A business's technical division can, and inevitably will, become insolvent due to the accumulation of that debt. I take it you've never worked at a company which, after a fast & high-complexity period of startup-development, has had its development grind to a near-halt? Where it takes weeks to make a one line change? This is the analogous equivalent of insolvency for tech debt.
- gilbetron 5y agoI disagree, it doesn't have to be "paid off", no one is waiting for the "money". Rather, design and code decisions may need to be addressed in the future to alleviate development friction. I have worked in places as you describe, and tech debt is still a bad analogy. It isn't debt, but rather friction, which is a much better analogy.