Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development
by Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya
Glossary
accruing interest—Additional costs incurred by building new software that depends on an element of technical debt, a nonoptimal solution. These costs accumulate over time into the initial principal to lead to the current principal (accretion).
artifact—See development artifact.
business goal—A high-level objective that a stakeholder in a software product development effort wants to achieve.
cause—The process, decision, action, lack of action, or event that triggers the existence of a technical debt item.
compounding interest—See accruing interest.
consequence—The effect on the value, quality, or cost of the current or the future state of a system associated with technical debt items.
context—The set of economic, sociological, cultural, ...
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