Technical debt is real debt

1 · Vincent Driessen · Jan. 19, 2017, midnight
Imagine your CFO walks into your office with a pained look on her face. She announces, “I just ran some reports and I’m concerned. We need to tighten up spending over the next 2 quarters so that we can pay down our line of credit, or else we’re going to be in real trouble a year from now.” This would probably get your attention. Yet when CTOs makes a similar statement (e.g. “I need 50% of my staff to focus on paying down technical debt”), it tends to be treated as a nice-to-have based on engine...