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The Real Cost of Technical Debt (With Numbers)
Technical debt is usually discussed in the abstract. Here's how to actually quantify it, and when paying it down is the cheaper option.
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Nafiz Anam
Lead Software Engineer
February 20, 2024
7 min read
Debt Compounds Like Debt
Every shortcut has an interest rate — measured in slower feature delivery, more bugs per release, and onboarding time for new engineers.
A Simple Framework
Track: time-to-ship for a comparable feature this quarter vs. a year ago. If it's growing while team size is flat, debt is the cause more often than not.
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