Tech for Non-Techies

43. What's technical debt and why should non-techies care?


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Learning notes from this episode:

  • Technical debt is the mess that gets left over from writing code and should be regularly cleaned up in order for the engineering team to work properly.

  • Alexandre suggests thinking of the tech development process like a restaurant kitchen. Having spillage and potato peels dropping on the floor is a normal part of the cooking process. But if you do not have a regimen to clean up, you will end up with a filthy kitchen that will affect your food (i.e. your product) and your customers will get sick.

  • Non-techies need to know that technical debt exists and that time needs to be buffered in to the development team's work to run this clean-up effort regularly. This has an implication on cost because product development cost isn't just about releasing new features, it is also cleaning up technical debt.

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