Unethical Ways to Manage Technical Debt (queue.acm.org)

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You can ignore it, tie it to unrelated company initiatives, or feign ignorance and simply not offer solutions that add to it. Or… you can adopt more above-board techniques such as Crawl/Walk/Run and the Reverse Farmer’s Rule, which reframe projects so that confronting tech debt is an upfront part of the plan.

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Is it even ethical to begin with to sincerely assist a company to accomplish what it is trying to do? It seems like it would be more ethical to prioritize your own interests if the company isn't itself altruistic.

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