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Technical debt is a real doozy. There’s no value for the higher ups in fixing it, so nobody does.
New features just take longer and longer to add, under a teetering pile of your own shit.
I think part of the problem is the ideal underlying structure for your project doesn’t really reveal itself until several years in, and by then it’s a nice to have for some other time that never arrives.
Well there is, it’s just long term value that they don’t even understand.
Really you should just make fixing technical debt part of your regular job. Don’t ask for permission, just do it. (Except for really big things obviously.)
Technical debt is a real doozy. There’s no value for the higher ups in fixing it, so nobody does.
New features just take longer and longer to add, under a teetering pile of your own shit.
I think part of the problem is the ideal underlying structure for your project doesn’t really reveal itself until several years in, and by then it’s a nice to have for some other time that never arrives.
Well there is, it’s just long term value that they don’t even understand.
Really you should just make fixing technical debt part of your regular job. Don’t ask for permission, just do it. (Except for really big things obviously.)