Technical Debt Quadrant News Today

I am encouraged that projects have begun to track their technical debt. As Kevin Casey writes, “The name is more self-explanatory than most tech terms.” And Product Plan says an article in the Information and Software Technology Journal defines technical debt in very specific terms: “Technical debt describes the consequences of software development actions that intentionally or

Refactoring "Know your enemy, know yourself, and in a hundred battles you will never be defeated" managementese. It’s a great essay on communication — and how, in the workplace, communication naturally optimizes for clarity and speed. Weird phrases that we often mock, such as " action item", or " circling back", are actually highly efficient vectors of meaning. They fit non trivial concepts in very few words, and are understood by everybody. One of such great metaphors is Technical Debt. T...