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How to explain Technical Debt to your Boss
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Hey Boss, look here!
I made a magical X-ray app that displays our code as wiring.
Here is the shiny, neat program that Bob wrote 15 years ago, right before he left us:
And here is what it is today, after Tom took it from Bob, and Jane from Tom, and Mick from Jane, and me from him, porting it to roughly four new platforms, and adding about 240 features from customer requests (150 of which were urgent):
I'm a developer who occasionally is the 'smart hands' (for our networks team) for some equipment in our office.
Fortunately ours is all Velcro tied so tidily adding an extra cable was awkward but ultimately trivial.
So, please educate a novice who wants to do right: what do you mean by every cable needs to be tied down? You mean individually?
In the 1st photo adding any cable would mean zip tying it down individually.
Ah, right. Unless replacing every zip tie along the cable route.
Which would suck.