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Technical Debt - Can you pay it back?
 

Technical Debt – Can you pay it back?

In a perfect world, development projects would be:

  1. Deployed often
  2. Developed using Agile practices, for example following Scrum
  3. Using mainstream technologies and libraries
  4. Managed & developed using best practices – the reason I started rules.ssw.com.au
  5. Run at a sustainable cadence with a team of at least 2 developers
  6. Code written in buddy fashion – 2 developers sitting side by side
  7. Covered with maintainable tests
  8. Ran by savvy & available Product Owners
  9. A Backlog that clearly identifies technical debt
  10. Reasonable budgets and timeframes

Do you work on a project that gets a tick on each one of these? Usually, the two biggest things in a software project that developers have the least influence over, are the time they have to build a product (aka #10 – a reasonable budget).

So, what does this mean in the real world? Usually, it means software developers making compromises to get something built in the desired timeframe. This often leads to what we call Technical Debt.

Keep reading to see how you can control technical debt and make it manageable.

- Adam Cogan, SSW Chief Architect Got a comment for Adam?
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