
Ask the team about technical debt – the creeping doom graph
I was just talking about the sad state of affairs where some teams know they are making life harder by taking shortcuts or creating workarounds that will slow the team down in the future. In fact, my grandma had some pretty good advice on this: There never seems to be time to do things properly – but don’t worry, there will be time tomorrow to react to the crisis that resulted from what you didn’t do properly today. To avoid this crisis management though, here is a simple way to measure the “technical debt” we are creating today. Put the following table up on … Continue reading Ask the team about technical debt – the creeping doom graph