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Technical Debt, the Cost of Cheap and "Get This Done ACAP"

Date Sat 08 March 2008 Tags planning / open source / enterprise / cost

See Martin Fowler's essay on Technical Debt . Also see Steve McConnell's thoughts <http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx.

We can use Agile techniques to get things done ASAP and ACAP (As Soon As Possible and As Cheap As Possible). However, we still need to …

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The Question of Risk (Revised)

Date Sat 06 January 2007 Tags risk / cost / strategy

Yes, it's an omission and, yes, it's a mistake. I should have said something along the lines of "risk is an uninteresting complication" or "risk is just a euphemism for bad management."

Why is risk uninteresting?

First, the seeds (Chad Fowler's "The Big Rewrite ", and CodeCraft, "To Rewrite or not …

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Project Justification

Date Fri 05 January 2007 Tags cost / investment / strategy

In "It's Strategic -- but it's not -- but it was -- now it's a burden ", I rambled about the situation I encounter on a regular basis. Here's a Haiku that captures the situation.

Please Replace It

It's heavily customized,

We can't install an upgrade,

We don't dare touch it.

The maintenance costs …

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