It’s not just the parts you can see in a piece of software that matter. Cleaning up critical technical debt can be at least as important as adding new features.
Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra ...
