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SLASOG: Leaders are ReadersLou Franco - Swimming in Tech Debt: Rethinking Technical Debt as ResistanceAccording to veteran software engineer Lou Franco, the tech debt metaphor is holding us back. According to this metaphor, engineers took a shortcut to deliver a feature faster. They borrowed from the future. And now, unless they pay it back, they’ll incur interest payments when they try to add more features. This metaphor is flawed in two ways.The first is that most technical debt just happens because a project is successful and long-lived, and the world changes. Or, our ideas get better. Or, we learn more about the problem. Or, our ambitions grow.Th...
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