[PaulHoule]

I rarely hear "technical debt" in the context of "let's incur some technical debt now so we can deliver this ticket quickly", it's rather "we can't deliver this ticket quickly now because somebody (usually somebody else) incurred technical debt" in the past.

If management is using it usually an attempt to shut discussion down in the context of (i) poor psychological safety on the part of devs because (ii) management doesn't trust anything the devs say because (iii) management knows that the devs are reading cargo-cult blog posts like "if this software was written in Haskell it wouldn't have any bugs".

[xupybd]

We do that. If we have to take a short cut we sit down with management and try to see if it's worth it.

We need to launch so we will do this now. We know January is going to be quiet so we plan to fix it then.