Disclaimer: this blog post was triggered/inspired by an article you can find here [https://thehftguy.com/2020/08/26/technical-debt-doesnt-exist/]. I strongly encourage you to get familiar with it - whatever I put below is built on it as a foundation, so all the kudos go to The HFT...
It seems that the technical debt is one on my favorite topics ;P Looking back just a few months, I've assembled at least three posts on the subject. One of them is particularly on the cost of running software ( https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/the-cost-of-running-software/ [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/the-cost-of-running-software/]), but...
I am yet to see a company in full control over its technical & model debt, with long-term stable development agility and the unshakeable ratio between new development & maintenance work. Usually, it's an inevitable downslide with a varying speed & acceleration. Development gets slower, maintenance gets more cumbersome & resource consuming, problems multiply,...
Let's daydream a little bit: You build stuff in a work environment of virtually endless repertoire of ideas to be implemented. Your work is all about new features, extensions of existing features, feedback-based improvements of sub-optimal features, etc. Obviously, it's not that each week you work on something totally disconnected;...
I'm not really a Scrum aficionado. Actually I'm pretty far from calling myself that way ;) But I can still remember the moment years ago when I was reading through Scrum Guide & some accompanying materials and I've found out a term that has really caught my attention: > "the quality built-in" It...
What can we say about the characteristics of lava flow (no metaphors YET, I refer to RL lava)? * it's practically impossible to stop/revert lava flow, it can either continue in the current "channel" or get routed in a new one(s) * if there's no clear channel/route, lava will...
