What is Technical Debt?

September 8, 2014, 01:34 PM

http://blogs.adobe.com/agile/2014/09/08/what-is-te...

Recently I’ve been hearing people use the term technical debt to describe all sorts of things that are related to system improvement. However, used properly, technical debt is not a catch-all phrase for system improvement work, but a subset of that work. What is Technical Debt? Ward Cunningham first described technical debt in an experience report in 1992: “Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a rew...