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technical-debt
- Sep 3, 2026 Sequencing Repayment Under a Fixed Capacity With more debt than capacity, the order of repayment determines the total benefit. Ranking by interest eliminated per week of work, subject to deadlines and prerequisites. software architecture
- Jul 29, 2024 Principal, Interest, and Upkeep in the Technical Debt Model What the debt metaphor actually quantifies: a one-time restoration cost, a recurring surcharge on future changes, and the arithmetic that decides whether repayment ever pays. software architecture
- Mar 3, 2024 Divergent Duplicates and the Cost of Two Truths How two copies of one business rule drift apart without any build failing, why the drift is expensive to resolve, and how to detect divergence before deciding which copy is right. software architecture
- Aug 4, 2022 Measuring Debt Without Inventing Numbers Complexity, size, churn, and coupling each measure something different, and none of them measures interest. How to build a debt inventory whose numbers change a decision. software architecture