Tag tech-debt

Dear new developer, I was out for a run the other day. People walk dogs along my running route and I had noticed a few days before a bag of dog poop. I had run on by, assuming someone was planning …

Tech debt is a term that often catches people out. Here are some ways to make sure you avoid falling into that trap!

Product manager: "Why does adding a button take 2 weeks?" Also product manager: "This tech debt does not bring business value, so we have to deprioritize it."

Robert Balazsi (@robertbalazsi)Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:27 +0000

Why refactor your code and keep up with dependency deprecations when you can get a new job every 3 years to avoid your own technical debt?

Carla Notarobot 🤖👩🏻‍💻 (@CarlaNotarobot)Sun, 16 Jan 2022 14:03 GMT

There is no cloud, it's just someone else's technical debt.

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:50 GMT

Dead

Lyzi Diamond (@lyzidiamond)Fri, 21 May 2021 17:32 +0000

Anybody ever achieve a status of being technical debt-free?

InfoSteph (@StephandSec)Thu, 20 May 2021 14:50 +0000

My theory of tech debt is that housework is the correct metaphor for the thing we call tech debt, but we can't use it because tech has been made up of people who don't do housework, or manage housework being done.

Yvonne Lam (@yvonnezlam)Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:13 +0000

There's "technical debt", and then there are decisions you make the morning of the release date that can only be described as 9000% APR technical payday loans

Jani Eväkallio (@jevakallio)Mon, 01 Mar 2021 13:01 GMT

Nice capsule description of Technical Debt for non-technical stakeholders.

Michael Feathers (@mfeathers)Fri, 06 Nov 2020 19:47 GMT