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Click here for my just published interview on Technical Debt. Major themes discussed in the interview are as follows:
- The nature of technical debt
- Tactical and strategic effects of technical debt
- How the technical debt metric enables you to communicate across levels and functions
- What Toxic Code is and how it is related to Net Present Value
- The atrocious nature of code with a high Error Feedback Ratio
- Cyclomatic complexity as a predictor of error-proneness
- Use of heat maps in reducing technical debt
- Use of density of technical debt as a risk indicator
- How and when to use technical debt to ‘stop-the-line’
- Use of technical debt in governing software
To illuminate various subtle aspects of technical debt, I use the following metaphors in the interview:
- The rusty automobiles metaphor
- The universal source of truth metaphor
- The Russian dolls metaphor
- The mine field metaphor
- The weight reduction metaphor
- The teeth flossing metaphor
Between the themes and the metaphors, the interview combines theory with pragmatic advice for both the technical and the non-technical listener.
