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Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development
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Managing Technical Debt: Reducing Friction in Software Development

by Philippe Kruchten, Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
7h 18m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Figure Number

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1

Page 14

P1-1

Principle 1: Technical debt reifies an abstract concept

Page 15

F1-1

Major concepts of technical debt

2

Page 20

F2-1

Technical Debt Landscape

Page 24

C2-A

Solution U is cheaper than V

Page 25

C2-B

W over V is cheaper than W over U

Page 26

C2-C

Pay interest, or repay the principal

Page 27

C2-D

Pay more interest, or repay the higher principal

Page 32

P2-2

Principle 2: If you do not incur any form of interest, then you probably do not have actual technical debt

Page 33

2-2

Technical Debt Timeline

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ISBN: 9780135646052