Wednesday, April 26, 2006

technical debt

I was listening to the Ruby on Rails podcast and a term I had never heard mentioned was brought up: Technical Debt. One of the things I constantly struggle with is how to explain the benefits of doing something a certain way to people who make decisions, but are not technical. Technical Debt is a perfect term to imply that doing something quick and dirty up front will cause real costs in the future.

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