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A Django co creator's practical framing of technical debt as something to budget and manage continuously, not a crisis to panic about. It helps you and your new hire agree on how much time goes to cleaning up inherited agency code versus shipping new features. Read it so the handover does not turn into a months long rewrite that stalls the business.
Managing Technical Debt
From jacobian.org by Jacob Kaplan-Moss 12 min read
- Budget a steady fraction of time for debt rather than big stop the world rewrites
- Prioritize the debt that actually slows the work you need to do now
- Debt is a normal cost of shipping, manage it, do not fear it
