Comments on: Extending the Technical Debt Metaphor http://basildoncoder.com/blog/2008/02/21/extending-the-technical-debt-metaphor/ Incoherent and disjointed opinionated drivel from somewhere near London Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:44:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: hans http://basildoncoder.com/blog/2008/02/21/extending-the-technical-debt-metaphor/#comment-585 hans Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:40:36 +0000 http://basildoncoder.com/blog/2008/02/21/extending-the-technical-debt-metaphor/#comment-585 While I like idea of the product team owning the debt, unfortunately all to often they don't pay the price for debt overload, at least not directly in a way they understand. Frequently the development team pays the price through things like late night support or pager duty due to low-quality rushed into production code. Like any metaphor, technical debt has its limits. While I like idea of the product team owning the debt, unfortunately all to often they don’t pay the price for debt overload, at least not directly in a way they understand. Frequently the development team pays the price through things like late night support or pager duty due to low-quality rushed into production code.

Like any metaphor, technical debt has its limits.

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Having been the lone, inexperienced engineer on a project that’s nearing 4 years old I incurred some heavy technical debt. Our (still small) group is putting the finishing touches on the first release of a total rewrite of this product, hopefully significantly reducing our principle.

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