Unethical Ways to Manage Technical Debt (queue.acm.org)

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You can ignore it, tie it to unrelated company initiatives, or feign ignorance and simply not offer solutions that add to it. Or… you can adopt more above-board techniques such as Crawl/Walk/Run and the Reverse Farmer’s Rule, which reframe projects so that confronting tech debt is an upfront part of the plan.

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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

To me it sounds like they took a lot of shortcuts and everyone from the team, barring the last engineer standing, were driven away by the looming Mount Debt

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