To ensure that the focus of any analysis of technical debt includes the real causes of technical debt, we must define it in terms that are unbiased relative to cause. One approach that meets this constraint is a definition not in terms of cause, but in terms of consequence.
Executive Update
A Policy Maker’s Definition of Technical Debt
Posted February 27, 2017 | Technology |
About The Author
Rick Brenner is Principal of Chaco Canyon Consulting. He works with people in dynamic problem-solving organizations who make complex products or deliver sophisticated services that need state-of-the-art teamwork and with organizations that achieve high performance by building stronger relationships among their people. Mr. Brenner focuses on improving personal and organizational effectiveness, especially in atypical situations, as in the case of… Read More
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