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Technical debt is one of this great new metaphor that is applied to software development and more specially to agile project management approaches like Scrum. As its financial counterpart, technical debt is not necessary a bad thing as long as you are able to manage it wisely. In this article, Don Reinertsen will help you to put some numbers on the costs and benefits of your technical debt.
The article starts by discussing the technical debt metaphor and assessing the difference with financial debt. As Don Reinertsen wrote it: “When we ...