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Tech debt is like all other debts, it need to be serviced. You keep accumulating it and it becomes toxic. Never take any debt and you are leaving easy money on
by blackoil 3y ago
Tech debt is like all other debts, it need to be serviced. You keep accumulating it and it becomes toxic. Never take any debt and you are leaving easy money on table and may loose to competition because you have slower delivery.
- reactordev 3y agoI agree with this. I’d go further and say it’s a visibility issue. Non-tech folks don’t know that the stuff is out of date, vulnerable, no longer supported. They don’t know how much debt they have borrowed. So having leadership know the costs, the cogs, the debts, and the projections is vital.