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Episode 481: Ipek Ozkaya on Managing Technical Debt

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Technical Debt Depends on the Future Evolution of the System

How can we depend on the future when we don't know the future? That's a good question, and i think it's about the accumulation of the consequences and the re work. When making a decision even to day, without the technical debt concept, we're making the decision based on our anticipated use of the system in the future. So that anticipated use puts a stress or not on the particular system, with or without technical debt. And i assess it based on that anticipated use and rework because if i don't anticipate that part of the system that has technical debt to change offen then i would not have any reason to spend resources on paying it down. Well, we've also

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