How To Tame Technical Debt In Software Development
InfoQ, Thursday, March 28th, 2024
According to Marijn Huizenveld, discipline is key to preventing accumulating technical debt. In order to be disciplined you should make it difficult to ignore the debt. Heuristics like fixing small issues immediately, agreeing on a timebox for improvement, and making messy things look messy, can help tame technical debt.
Marijn Huizendveld spoke about taming technical debt at OOP 2023 Digital.
To prevent the accumulation of technical debt and foster discipline, Huizendveld suggested using a highly visible area to show the debt inventory: