Why non-engineers should care about “Technical Debt” Technical debt is an abstract concept, but it will impact your customers in tangible ways.
Tech Debt and Refactoring Refactor as necessary to avoid adding tech debt during day-to-day. Add tests and rearchitect during the normal development cycle when adding to a preexisting codebase. Taking the time to do things right makes everything take a little longer than it strictly needs to, but it allows you to avoid unpredictable …