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Avoiding System Bankruptcy: How to Pay Off Your Technical Debt
Cutter Consortium, Sep 2010, Pages: 16
We’re all familiar with debt, especially financial debt. The longer a monetary debt is left unpaid, the more interest accrues. Eventually bankruptcy may be declared. Similarly, in software development, every time something is executed incorrectly, it may be thought of as technical debt.
If the technical debt is not paid up, the system's quality will rapidly deteriorate until it goes 'bankrupt'; it then may be decommissioned as the cost of maintaining it will be too high. This Executive Report by Amir Kolsky introduces the concept of technical debt, what practices and attitudes cause it, and what we can do to prevent it or pay it off.
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