How to manage technical debt - Kevlin Henney

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In this video, Kevlin Henney, the writer of the book 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know speaks on the best way to manage technical debt in a software project when compared to the traditional way developers have been doing it, and how the new approach may lead to a better software system down the road. Thoughts?

[perfectionbox]

"Boss, we need to refactor the code."
"I'll pretend I didn't hear you say that." (glares at developer)

[madmanX]

Yeah, management is gonna ask you what problems exactly they are gonna have. You say everything‘s gonna take more and more time to build or fix afterwards. They say good to know, we‘re gonna make the customers pay more. Problem solved.

[ChrisAthanas]

The only real answer is to chuck it and start over, like real programmers do that don’t have managers who don’t code