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... unless some code/feature gets deprecated and has to be removed anyways. But yeah, I think there should be some concrete examples with concrete times to hel
by valenterry 4y ago
... unless some code/feature gets deprecated and has to be removed anyways.
But yeah, I think there should be some concrete examples with concrete times to help people to understand better what the impact is. And it should be noted that technical debt is not debt to a single entity. It's like debt to multiple entities. Sometimes technical debt for a certain part MUST be paid back right now, or a critical bug cannot be fixed and a client is lost. You can't buy more time by increasing the interest and paying more later. Not possible.
- willjp 4y agoIt also grows scope over time, as more systems are built around it. Which means to fix it, someone needs to learn several systems.