2 thoughts on “Can we please stop talking about tech debt?”
So basically the proposed approach is to lie to the business about the debt if it is called “Feature A” not “Tech Debt A” they would be ok with that. There is nothing new here, businesses care only about profit\features\product value, there is no place for debt, because debt equals mistakes from their perspective. They don’t want to hear that you gonna fix “debt” for the next X weeks. Just lie to them, call it supper important feature, hide this work behind something that they value.
So basically the proposed approach is to lie to the business about the debt if it is called “Feature A” not “Tech Debt A” they would be ok with that. There is nothing new here, businesses care only about profit\features\product value, there is no place for debt, because debt equals mistakes from their perspective. They don’t want to hear that you gonna fix “debt” for the next X weeks. Just lie to them, call it supper important feature, hide this work behind something that they value.
Interesting take…