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Re:The Cost Center Trap by tboyd47 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:43AM (#15747490)
I like to think there's a hidden mirror analogy of "tech debt," which is the "time discount," or the notion that the longer you wait to actualize a monetary gain, the less valuable it is. Both concepts are drawn from finance, and if one is applicable to software, so is the other.

I don't dare speak of this in engineering circles, though. I'd be chased out of the office with pitchforks...

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Re:The Cost Center Trap by aeorgnoieang on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:16AM (#15748364)
> I don't dare speak of this in engineering circles, though. I'd be chased out of the office with pitchforks...

What's the taboo implication that you expect the people in your engineering circles to fear or otherwise react negatively?

The idea of paying down tech debt sooner than later?

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Re:The Cost Center Trap by tboyd47 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:36AM (#15748544)
The "monetary gain" I'm referring to here would be the software itself. So it's the idea of software being intrinsically more valuable the sooner you get it out the door. ::ducks::
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Re:The Cost Center Trap by aeorgnoieang on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:58PM (#15751477)
Surely they know about and hate vaporware themselves! They should be ducking!
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