Re:The True Meaning of Technical Debt (2020)
by chestervonwinch on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:25PM
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> 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.
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.