Slides: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/td2013/program/upload/TechnicalDebt-ICSE.pdf
Business vs Technical viewpoints
- Business staff tends to be optimistic about debt
- Technical staff tends to be pessimistic about debt (religious and aesthetic)
- These attitudes are often not conscious
- Debt is a tool, neither inherently good nor bad
Short- vs Long-term debt
- Short: violating coding standards, "we'll write these unit tests after we ship"