Stick and Move: Strategies for Fighting Technical Debt

Technical debt is a software development concept that implies a future cost of additional work caused by choosing easy solutions to a piece of functionality or project in the short term. Technical debt at the systemic level will cause the most problems, as it will generally be on an architectural level and therefore most capable of harm. There are concrete strategies and tactics that can be employed early and often to help minimize technical debt when it does eventually rise up from the ashes of decisions-past like a phoenix of bad code design.