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by crate_barre 1705 days ago
X = technical debt

Velocity = X*-1 + (everything else).

With enough technical debt, everything else won’t, or barely, overcome it. You won’t make headway.

You need technical PMs and technical Product devs (people that know how to turn a Figma into an app on their own, know how to make a simple rest api, etc) to even make the case, otherwise they will opt to just throw more people at it or new people at it. It’s a pointless battle, our industry is so big we employ many agile folks with about the same experience and skills as someone working at McDonalds.

Sorry kids.

Personally, I’d never even give a future recommendation to anyone that created that kind of tech debt on any codebase I’ve been on. I stay away from them professionally, it causes nightmares from top to bottom (from business, design, dev, qa). We don’t fire these people quick enough because the McDonals Agile folks love all the initial throughput.

I’m not sure who else to blame.