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Reframing technical debt

If you're going to have to spend the time doing the work, you might as well talk about it in a way that's actually beneficial to the organization as a whole.

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Apr 2, 2024

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The phrase “technical debt” has such a negative connotation for something that happens in basically every organization. I mean, the word “debt” is literally in there. We typically think of technical debt as any sort of unplanned or unscheduled work that needs to be done by an engineering team that you’ve accumulated over time as a result of other actions made - whether it’s productionizing a patch (yes, we all have those “temporary” fixes) or upgrade packages within your repo, this engineering-driven work always holds a very necessary part of your overall roadmap.

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