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There's a difference between deliberate technical debt and accidental debt. More often what I have seen is accidental debt - not a deliberate choice between tra
by danjac 4y ago
There's a difference between deliberate technical debt and accidental debt. More often what I have seen is accidental debt - not a deliberate choice between tradeoffs but accumulation of poor quality code and architecture due to inexperience, poor time planning, and constant changes in business direction that are common to new companies.
- louwrentius 4y agoMaking conscious trade-offs isn’t tech debt. If business requirements change, that isn’t tech debt. If you don’t implement new high-level (business) insights or postpone this work, you are accruing technical debt. At least, that’s what Ward Cunningham stated.