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D. A. R. BrownTaming Your Dragonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0264-5_3

3. Why Has Technical Debt Proved So Resistant to Solutions?

Dr. Andrew Richard Brown1  
(1)
England, UK
 
Technical Debt Is Misunderstood
We Deal with Technical Debt at the Wrong Place
Proximate Causes and Ultimate Causes
Technical Debt Is Rarely Urgent
Technical Debt Is Not Sexy
There Are No Silver Bullets for Technical Debt
We Desperately Want Technical Debt to Be a Technical Problem
Reducing Technical Debt Requires Change Management
Further Reading
Summary

Many have attempted to address technical debt, with varying degrees of success. In this chapter, we look at why the technical debt problem ...

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