Chapter 2. What Is Technical Debt?
Drawing from a financial metaphor, the concept of technical debt shifts the conversation about decision making from a technical standpoint or an economic standpoint to a place where developers and managers can better understand the trade-offs and compromises in software development and decide on the way forward. In this chapter, we describe the technical debt landscape through the forms technical debt takes in different types of development artifacts across the software development lifecycle. We explore more thoroughly the concept of a technical debt item and its causes and economic consequences as principal and interest. We introduce the technical debt timeline to help you understand how technical debt unfolds ...
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