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Not Another Technical Debt Article

ypes of technical debt articles: None of these articles ultimately help you with technical debt. Instead, they continue our endless dialogue around technical debt, perpetuating a programming culture that loves to talk about technical debt but does nothing about it.

It seems very unlikely that subsections of Technical Debt form a natural kind and so we must recognize that any divisions we want to make are going to be intermixed with our own desires and goals. Tell your stakeholders about all the info in this article Categorize all your technical debt and put it in priority order Get dedicated time to tackle it (almost always 20% of your time/points) They might include things like updating a dependency everyone has neglected to upgrade which is now causing slowdowns in other parts of development.

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