> There’s a whiff of victim blaming here that bothers me. Huh, what are you even talking about? What victim am I blaming for what? I am sharing an important p

> There’s a whiff of victim blaming here that bothers me. Huh, what are you even talking about? What victim am I blaming for what? I am sharing an important part of the technical debt management process that I don't see mentioned as frequently. Planning out where and when your organization should take on technical debt seems as important to me as planning out where and when your organization should pay down that debt. Treating people like children is rarely a good approach and to me indicates someone who is either lazy or unwilling to take the effort to communicate well (edit: including when working with actual children). If an organization can't resolve dissent effectively, that seems like a deeper underlying organizational disfunction that will cause all kinds of problems. The truth is, the line for what is technical debt is kinda fuzzy and a there is a lot of other stuff that isn't really technical debt, but rather process or organizational debt.