How to measure technical debt

By andre.schweighofer - 2020-05-14

Description

In my years as a software engineer I was always drawn to the shiny new things. But time and time again I got confronted with code ridden with technical debt. If you are working in tech you probably he ...

Summary

  • In my years as a software engineer I was always drawn to the shiny new things.
  • I hope I can give you a fresh perspective to look at technical debt, one that considers both engineering and business.
  • If you zoom out far enough you get a view on global or systemic technical debt.
  • As a product manager you might be looking for an argument which proves the engineers are just whining over nothing and you can keep running the feature factory.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.35)
  2. Backend (0.16)
  3. UX (0.09)

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