Hunting Tech Debt via Org Charts
Tech debt isn’t a thing.<p>I mean it is because it’s a thing that engineers worry about mainly because of ego and pride. I know that’s triggering but let me explain…<p>As humans we all have ego and want our work to be important which is why tech debt is important to engineers who have a myopic view of their value and what businesses can actually bear.<p>- I have seen companies with loads of tech debt lose 60% of their engineering staff in a year with no impact to business.<p>- I have seen companies with loads of tech debt cause production deployment slow to a snails pace AND still have rapid consumer growth.<p>Engineering is important when it’s important but once product-market fit and a great moat has been achieved that value diminishes considerably.