Re:We invested 10% to pay back tech debt; Here's what happened
by 0xbadcafebee on Sunday January 15, 2023 @08:51PM
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> Speak a language your management understands
Yes! And if they don't care about velocity and reliability, don't tell them that. If they've been going on about hiring and employee retention, tell them how this tech debt thing is going to have such a huge change that you can turn it into a kickass conference talk and hire more 10x programmers, which is a bigger value to them than "I made the app more maintainable". They don't care much what your team does; just give them something they want to buy.
Yes! And if they don't care about velocity and reliability, don't tell them that. If they've been going on about hiring and employee retention, tell them how this tech debt thing is going to have such a huge change that you can turn it into a kickass conference talk and hire more 10x programmers, which is a bigger value to them than "I made the app more maintainable". They don't care much what your team does; just give them something they want to buy.