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Re:How to approach and prioritize technical debt by louwrentius on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:47AM (#30159701)
This discussion is fine in and of itself. This discussion and any outcomes have nothing to do with technical debt.

If stakeholders are aware of design decisions and related cost + understand the potential trade-off, that’s it.

No need to add concepts like technical debt. And this example would not even be technical debt according to Ward Cunningham’s definition.

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Re:How to approach and prioritize technical debt by anamax on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @02:54PM (#30183078)
It's not clear how to distinguish my example from every other shortcut that people do to get things out the door. (It's not the numbers - growth can jump to 100% if marketing gets its act together.)

While Ward Cunningham may have introduced the term, his definition is obviously not the one that most people use, so it's pretty irrelevant.

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