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Payback Time - Dealing With Technical Debt
1 points by pahund 4618 days ago
The term "technical debt" means different things to different people, but one thing is for sure: you have to pay your dues sooner or later. But how do you explain that to your product owner, who only cares about making the customer happy and cannot understand why the dev team should spend so much time refactoring, upgrading, code-cleaning, without producing any value to the customer that's directly observable?