The concept of “Technical Debt” was first introduced by Ward Cunningham in an OOPSLA 1992 experience report. Martin Fowler has a pretty concise definition of technical debt. Steve McConnell expanded the concept and even created a taxonomy of different kinds of technical debt. Just what is technical debt? I recommend reading the above-linked articles, but [...]
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Subprime Technical Debt
Posted in Agile on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weinberg: Quality Software Management
Posted in Agile on January 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In the past few months, I’ve read most of Weinberg’s Quality Software Management series. There are four books in this series: 1. Systems Thinking 2. First Order Measurement 3. Congruent Action 4. Anticipating Change I first heard of this series several years ago, and I had a couple reactions. The first was to be intimidated. [...]
