Why the Way We Look at Technical Debt Is Wrong
This post is cross-posted from bigeng.io — feel free to read there! I’ll be straightforward at the start of this post: I firmly believe that the most important issue a company deals with is how it reconciles itself with technical debt. Period. Now, here’s the real point of this post: Technical Debt is a Positive and Necessary Step in software engineering. First off, let’s define technical debt for the purposes of this post, as the words can mean many different things to different people....