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- Impact - Fix Costs - Contagion
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- Good examples of teach debt and why it's good
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My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated - Deprecated should be my middle name
- Everything is "Technical Debt"
Analogy
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Tips On Prioritizing Tech Debt In A Healthy Way
- RICE metric
- Talk the language
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- when we put
FIXME
orTODO
in our code. - Research says we don't do this as much in industry code, as this affects how people perceive our code.
- Fiorella Zampetti, Gianmarco Fucci, Alexander Serebrenik, and Massimiliano Di Penta. Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source. Empirical Software Engineering, Sep 2021. doi:10.1007/s10664-021-10031-3.
- when we put
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alien artefacts, a subcategory of legacy code. I use the term to describe particularly complicated and important pieces of software written by very smart engineers that are no longer working for the company—and thus not available to support it. The software works really well for what it was designed to do, but it is highly resistant to change.
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