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It does affect them indirectly. More importantly, it affects the company. Engineer's lose motivation and put less effort in. The company has to spend more budg
by NAHWheatCracker 5y ago
It does affect them indirectly. More importantly, it affects the company.
Engineer's lose motivation and put less effort in. The company has to spend more budget on operations. Emergencies come up. Projects fail to deliver on-time.
These things are the tech debt and the interest being paid.
He had a point in some cases. There are products that aren't used or aren't under active development.
He was lumping all of the tech debt together. He was saying to everyone in the organization that he viewed all tech debt this way.
- mmcnl 5y agoOk, so there is impact for them? Then elaborate and be specific. I'm pretty sure that any sane manager or director will listen when you tell you them you can save on operational costs. Just be specific and explain what you can do and what it will achieve. There's literally 0 need to use obfuscating non-specific vague words such as "technical debt". Everytime I see someone mentioning technical debt I take as a signal that there is a vague idea of opportunities for improvement, but no one has taken the effort to quantify the costs and benefit in a specific way. If you see yourself using the words "technical debt" as an engineer, it means you need to do your homework and be more specific and ask yourself what you're actually saying.