How To Eliminate Organizational Debt

The debt that’s crippling your company isn’t on your balance sheet. Here’s what to do about it.

Debt has been around for thousands of years. You borrow money. The lender charges interest until you pay the money back. It’s simple. More recently, the software development community coined a term for another kind of debt: technical debt. Technical debt is the notion that taking shortcuts while writing code (or making repeated changes to code) has consequences later.

“Shipping first-time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rewrite … The danger occurs when the debt is not repaid. Every minute spent on not-quite-right code counts as interest on that debt. Entire engineering organizations can be brought to a stand-still under the debt load of an unconsolidated implementation…”

––Ward Cunningham

 
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