[drcongo]

Yeah, I didn't find the intro conversation in the article familiar at all. And also, if a one day change is taking a week then when asked "Oh really! What is it costing us?" the answer is 5x what it should. It's incredibly easy to directly link technical debt to running costs.

[perrygeo]

Exactly this. The author's dev-blaming perspective is that Tech Debt costs are not accounted for systematically nor communicated clearly to the business folks.

Yet the intro provides an example of clearly quantifying and communicating the costs. I'd say he disproves his own point in the introduction. I found it hard to read the rest of this article.