Reframe Technical Debt as Software Debt. Treat It Like a AAA-Rated CDO. (2022)

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https://www.evalapply.org/posts/software-debt/index.html

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Contents (summary)

- Backstory

- Framing pigeonholes Responsibility.

- Software debt packages risk. We need better mental models of that risk.

  - Software debt risk perception is muddied by personal bias.

  - Software debt is rooted in complexity. We abhor complexity.

  - Software debt is inevitable.

  - Software debt always compounds.

  - Software debt is layered.

  - Software debt is networked.

  - Software debt is like a complex opaque financial derivative.

- 1,000 words in 1 picture: xkcd summarizes it best.

- Stories of Debt and Destruction