Managed Technical Debt

Debt is good. Organizations use it all the time to invest. Technical debt can be good. Are you investing wisely?

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1. Managed Technical Debt @mathiasverraes
2. Is technical debt is like debt with the bank?
3. We've always explained this wrong
4. Technical debt is like debt with the mob 1 Alberto Brandolini
6. Legacy is a system that is making money
7. The cost of ownership becomes greater than the value it provides
8. Ask your CFO about financial debt
9. Ask your CTO about technical debt
10. Companies take out debt all the time
11. The bad kind is unmanaged debt
12. Technical debt includes 4 Code 4 Infrastructure 4 Automation 4 Documentation 4 Knowledge 4 Bus factor 4 ...
13. Know your debt 4 Interest rate 4 Payment plan 4 Cost vs value
14. Manage your debt
16. Make a stickie when you encounter it
17. Mark repeated encounters on the stickie
18. Balance DX vs business
19. Boy scout rule
20. New debt requires a team discussion
21. Make it visual
22. Explain debt to the business in the universal language $
23. Be responsible: manage your debt
24. Domain-Driven Design verraes.net/workshops/
25. @mathiasverraes verraes.net/2013/07/managed-technical-debt/