Re:Undebt: How We Refactored 3M Lines of Code
by ajdlinux on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @02:03AM
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"The amount of dev time that a company will save from removing technical debt will likely be more than the extra sales the company will get from a new feature."
Not always true (though it often is!), but particularly not always true in the timespan that the company needs to get sales in...
Re:Undebt: How We Refactored 3M Lines of Code
by PhilipA on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:36AM
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The problem is that this is very hard to measure. You can't really measure how much time you save on new features after you fixed the old spaghetti-code.
Not always true (though it often is!), but particularly not always true in the timespan that the company needs to get sales in...