Martin Fowler · martinfowler.com
Technical Debt
Technical Debt is a metaphor for the consequences of cruft. You either have to accept a drag on further features (paying interest) or fix the software (paying the principal)
Why we picked it
Makes software cruft legible through the tradeoff between paying continuing interest and repaying principal through repair.
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