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The Human Cost of Tech Debt - DaedTech
The Human Cost of Tech Debt - DaedTech
Editorial Note: I originally wrote this post for the Infragistics blog. Head over to their site and check out the original. While you're there, have a look at the other blog authors and their product offering. If you're not already familiar with the concept of technical debt, it's worth becoming familiar with it.
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Thought this was interesting. Tech Debt just like real debt makes people grumpy.




I never believe anyone who says their project doesn't have any technical debt.
My first full time developer gig out of school was 10 years of single developer, with lots of severe technical debt. The dev who'd been solo on the project refused to admit there were problems. I remember printing out all the ER of the database tables (over 120 with no enforced foreign keys), painstakingly cutting them out, and taking over the entire whiteboard to map the relationships. He just couldn't understand why I wanted to know the entire schema inside and out.
I've also been responsible for my fair share of it, I'll be the first to admit it.
Tech debt is like all debt. You use it as leverage. It has to exist, but it just needs to be managed and payed down as you go. It only becomes a problem when it's not payed down.