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The Psychology and Politics of Technical Debt: How We Incur Technical Debt and Why Retiring It Is So Difficult

by Rick Brenner


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Many long-standing problems like technical debt owe their longevity to two factors — not dealing effectively with their causes and not dealing effectively with their resilience. Because what limits our ability to deal with technical debt might not be technical, it is useful to explore possible psychological and political sources of the longevity of the technical debt problem, five of which are explained in this report as well as five guidelines for designing effective technical debt management policy.