2 years ago

We don’t want to invest in the past, right? And she offered engineers techniques to persuade others to invest in that debt — even when everybody else just wants to focus on shiny new features.

Your gut feelings are of value, but whenever possible you need to understand and explain the impact of not investing in paying down that debt.

If your audience is technical, that information might be useful to them so that they can understand the impact of the mess themselves, but, to most people, that information is just not relevant.

You should spend it on the things that matter to you, not on something frivolous, like indentation rules,” she said.