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In Corporate and Enterprise environments, the term 'Technical Debt' is now commonly used for systems and platforms that are beyond their supportable lifecycle,
by Jaruzel 4y ago
In Corporate and Enterprise environments, the term 'Technical Debt' is now commonly used for systems and platforms that are beyond their supportable lifecycle, but are still in use for reasons, yet need to be replaced as soon as possible. These systems were never just hacked together with the knowledge they'd be problem in the future.
- darkwater 4y agoShouldn't those systems be named "legacy system" then?
- Jaruzel 4y agoYou'd think so, yes. But... it's Corporate, nothing in those places makes much sense.
- eric-burel 4y agoWouldn't "legacy" be a better word then? Meaning it wasn't meant to be a debt but it's still the legacy left to you today
- wccrawford 4y agoIt's known now that they're a problem, and they're choosing right now to continue with that problem rather than spend the time/money/effort to change them. That's still technical debt. If it helps, you can see it as starting right now, rather than when the code was written. Either way, they're choosing to continue to have problems rather than pay off that debt... yet.