Post #99040
2023-09-26 20:23 UTC
Replies (29)
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@Jaffa@social.linux.pizza 2023-09-27 07:31
@pierstoval Gives me a new visual for when our CEO says "fix the roof while the sun is shining".
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@fabian@floss.social 2023-09-27 08:04
@pierstoval more like mental health problems, tbh
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@wolf@helvede.net 2023-09-27 08:34
@pierstoval Project managers be like: "Awesome! We can put the important servers under the hole so they get free air cooling."
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@dag@chaos.social 2023-09-27 08:56
@pierstoval then one day burglars came through the hole and killed him.
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@zilpzalp@dresden.network 2023-09-27 09:13
@pierstoval "Instead of explaining to you what it is, I'll rather explain what it does: It'll kill your business. End of story."
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@hamin@mastodon.acc.sunet.se 2023-09-27 09:18
@pierstoval Adding this to a customer presentation today...
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@foreignfilm@mastodon.nz 2023-09-27 09:29
@pierstoval see also: climate change
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@allsumnull@mastodon.cloud 2023-09-27 09:34
@pierstoval oh boy, you are getting printed out and stuck on a wall at work. I hope you're ok with that.
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@cheerfulmadness@graphics.social 2023-09-27 10:05
@pierstoval It looks like a Richard Scary’s illustration
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@jerp@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-09-27 10:09
@pierstoval Holy crap this is way too accurate.
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@rmcauley@famichiki.jp 2023-09-27 10:25
@pierstoval My PM says: How can we move the house to a country that doesn't rain then?
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@smol_entity@cubhub.social 2023-09-27 11:47
@pierstoval while the image is funny, it's not really technical debt, it's just bad planning. Technical debt is covering the hole with newspapers to keep out a drizzle, knowing full well it won't stop a rainstorm that will happen eventually
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@trent@dice.camp 2023-09-27 11:53
@pierstoval I was on a team that kept ClearCase running. My co-worker said we were in technical debtors prison. He retired last year and I got reorg'ed into a different team... and am yet again maintaining a crumbling service that is critical infrastructure.
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@pierstoval@mastodon.social 2023-09-27 13:02
@RustyBertrand I don't get it 🤐
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@pierstoval@mastodon.social 2023-09-28 06:16
@RustyBertrand maybe it's because I am a robot, no one will know
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@wolleysegap@firefish.community 2023-09-27 13:15
@pierstoval@mastodon.social that's great. Now explain sunk cost fallacy
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@sihaha@norden.social 2023-09-27 13:17
@pierstoval I always say: It was called technical debt back then. Now it's called financial risk. We should estimate the cost of delay p.a. and the probability of occurance.
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@cmmdmx@mastodon.social 2023-09-27 14:36
@pierstoval This is incredible.
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@Pionir@toot.bike 2023-09-27 14:43
@pierstoval oh the irony. I'm sitting in an end of life meeting arguing why doing nothing is doing the wrong thing.
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@jaycie@tech.lgbt 2023-09-27 14:55
@pierstoval Unholy bleeping bleep that spells it out so well.
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@synlogic@toot.io 2023-09-27 15:38
@pierstoval yep the ideal tech debt is 0. but hard to reach and keep. typically it rises and drops overtime but is never zero. I think if a piece of software is still searching for PMF and 1st customer then keeping tech debt down is not as important. cuz any startup is "default dead" until/unless becomes $-sustainable. once the $ question is proven and steady paychecks are on the line THEN tech debt paydown becomes more wise
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@matt@postchat.io 2023-09-27 15:53
@bbb_999 I’m saving this one for later
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@malwareminigun@infosec.exchange 2023-09-27 16:28
@pierstoval @anthonywilliams I don't think that this captures that it is more about making future modifications more difficult rather than a direct problem. A hole in a roof is a bug. Technical debt isn't a bug, but it can make avoiding bugs more costly. I think a better ELI5 would be "technical debt is like buying cheap scissors. They're cheaper, and they might *work*, but they're going to make building your next arts and crafts project more difficult"
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@Mallulady@mastodon.world 2023-09-27 17:34
@pierstoval 😊
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@elite@social.macer.life 2023-09-27 18:02
@pierstoval 🤣 perfect explanation.
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@annamal@mastodon.nz 2023-09-27 19:42
@pierstoval this is perfect
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@demofox@mastodon.gamedev.place 2023-09-28 00:24
@pierstoval I love that "project managers" don't know what technical debt is. How are they qualified to manage the peoject?
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@niclas@angrytoday.com 2023-09-28 08:24
@pierstoval Brilliant!
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@GeoffreyWinn@kind.social 2023-09-28 19:26
@pierstoval I still do not know what technical debt is. It is because I’m not very smart.