Revisiting a seemingly self-evident term

To be clear: I do not think we should actually forget technical debt. Also, this is not the nth post discussing if “debt” is an appropriate metaphor. I do not have a strong opinion regarding the metaphor. My point is rather that I realized in a recent discussion that in the end, it is not so much about technical debt but rather about something else, and I wanted to share the thought.

  • Feyd
    8·
    10 hours ago

    The reason we use it is to tell non-technical management people why implementing a simple feature might take an hour on a fresh project and a week on an old legacy project.

    Yes, thank you. It’s really as simple as that

    A client recently approached me with the need to measure technical debt.

    The writer made the whole essay because saying “just ask your engineers what they need to improve” wouldn’t make him money.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 hours ago

      The writer made the whole essay because saying “just ask your engineers what they need to improve” wouldn’t make him money.

      I wonder if the writer ever worked as an engineer.