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Tag: Technical Debt
Reframing debt as investment: the quadrants, the metaphor's origin, and making the economic case for paying it down.
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Margaret-Anne Storey's triple debt model and why AI accelerates the two invisible layers, cognitive debt and intent debt.
Ward Cunningham's original metaphor explaining why shipping imperfect code can be a rational economic decision.
Martin Fowler's two-by-two matrix classifying technical debt by intent (deliberate vs. inadvertent) and discipline (reckless vs. prudent).
Technical debt is swallowing the roadmap and every refactor feels like a fight.
Margaret-Anne Storey's article proposing a triple debt model of technical, cognitive, and intent debt for reasoning about software health in the age of AI.
Make an economic case for pursuing a process improvement or driving down toil using back of the envelope math.
A hands-on workshop that teaches engineering teams to reframe technical debt as strategic investment, build economic cases for paying it down, and manage a portfolio of incremental technical improvements.