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A comment on The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020).

Re:The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020) by pbadenski on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:10AM (#26791669)
As with any metaphor, technical debt has its' limits and its' traps. IMHO the biggest problem is that a comparison with lending implies that technical debt can be managed like people do with a loan. With loan you know how much of money-equivalence you take, how much you owe and how much interest you have accumulated on top.

Most of measurement - if at all possible - is much less obvious with technical debt. And inability to easily quantify it, opens up door for corruption.

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Re:The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020) by chestervonwinch on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:25PM (#26794759)
> And inability to easily quantify it, opens up door for corruption.

Yes, and since it's not readily quantifiable, any notion of something analogous to a payoff schedule is not possible. This makes it difficult to make a concrete and specific case for doing code cleanup or debt paydown often just before it's absolutely necessary.

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