Every development manager has faced the choices: Ship sooner? Squeeze in an extra feature? Test a little less to cut cost? Invest in infrastructure? Rewrite that problematic code? Virtually every development cycle goes through a similar set of tradeoffs multiple times in the course of getting code out the door. Every time a decision is made, the overall quality, maintainability, complexity, and stability of a software system goes up or down.
The Economics of Technical Debt
Posted September 30, 2010 | Leadership |
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