Cognitive Load

Forget technical debt

Revisiting a seemingly self-evident term

Uwe Friedrichsen

14 minute read

View across some ruins integrated in a park (seen in Budapest, Hungary)

To be clear: I do not think we should actually forget technical debt. Also, this is not the nth post discussing if “debt” is an appropriate metaphor. I do not have a strong opinion regarding the metaphor. My point is rather that I realized in a recent discussion that in the end, it is not so much about technical debt but rather about something else, and I wanted to share the thought.