Debt powers our economy, and technical debt powers your business. If we look at it that way, it’s a lot less threatening to label all your code as “tech debt.”
Source: Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt
Debt powers our economy, and technical debt powers your business. If we look at it that way, it’s a lot less threatening to label all your code as “tech debt.”
Source: Understanding the risk profile of your technical debt
You can’t not make things dirty when you cook, but if you don’t clean things quickly, muck dries up, is harder to remove, and all the dirty stuff gets in the way of cooking the next dish.
Drewitz used the example of Discover Card, which was able to eliminate thousands of lines of legacy code that was not driving a business outcome, but still kept some of that code because it was
Source: Technical Debt Can Be Good if it Drives Positive Business Outcomes
Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code.
Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
Nice chart, template for plan to modernize code.
Original source: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.