Product
Technical Debt
The implied cost of shortcuts taken during development that will need to be addressed later.
Why it matters
- Accumulates over time and slows down future development
- Can lead to bugs, security issues, and poor performance
- Makes the codebase harder to maintain and extend
When to use
- When making tradeoffs between speed and code quality
- During planning to allocate time for refactoring
- When explaining to stakeholders why development is slowing
Common mistakes
- Never paying down debt, letting it accumulate indefinitely
- Not tracking technical debt as part of the backlog
- Taking on debt without understanding the future cost
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