Bad management, oversight, and architecting returns bad code. Often team leads know better, but are driven by deadlines and the lack of a skilled workforce (with little time to train them) to produce a product. Of course this leads to turn-over...eventually. People will work for a year, realize that nothing they want to accomplish will happen quickly because of resourcing, then they'll run away. I really don't agree that the human cost of technical debt is a new concept. It's foremost in my mind when I think about giving tools to employees to add new features. Well written article, but not really anything new.
