[Baypiggies] August 15: Andy Lester on Technical Debt

Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com
Tue Aug 15 22:11:19 CEST 2006


This is a Perl Mongers event, but I think it is of general
interest.  Be sure to RSVP if you want to attend!

-r

> Andy will speak on technical debt and how to get out of it.
> Technical debt is that nasty condition companies get into
> where the codebase is crufty, poorly documented, and hard
> to test, and everyone is terrified of changing anything.
>
> "Just like financial debt, it's the compound interest on
> technical debt that snowballs until you can no longer
> manage," Andy writes. Come learn how to pay down your
> biggest debts before that happens.

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