Link: Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt
March 29th, 2009
Coding Horror: Paying Down Your Technical Debt
Beyond what Steve describes here, I’d also argue that accumulated technical debt becomes a major disincentive to work on a project. It’s a collection of small but annoying things that you have to deal with every time you sit down to write code. But it’s exactly these small annoyances, this sand grinding away in the gears of your workday, that eventually causes you to stop enjoying the project. These small things matter.
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