{"id":1568,"date":"2015-04-02T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2017-11-20T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T19:39:10","slug":"software-lost-video-ward-cunningham-technical-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2015\/04\/software-lost-video-ward-cunningham-technical-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Lost Video: Ward Cunningham &#8211; Technical Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of <strong>technical debt<\/strong> is used a lot in the software world today.\u00a0 But the problem is that the concept is used almost always with a different meaning than the initial one.<\/p>\n<p>Ward Cunningham coined this metaphor when he was working for a financial software product. The meaning of this concept is that we prefer to put in production software with a partial understanding of the requirements and gather feedback. The only reason we do this, because we learn faster about how the feature should look like. While we put in production partial features, we accumulate debt. It is extremely important to take the time and clean the technical debt, by adding into the software the gathered understanding from the partial feature put in production.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/2015\/04\/software-lost-video-ward-cunningham-technical-debt\/debt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2159\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2159\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debt-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Technical Debt\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debt.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debt-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/debt-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical debt is not sloppy programming or messy code.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_39623\"  width=\"1110\" height=\"833\"  data-origwidth=\"1110\" data-origheight=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pqeJFYwnkjE?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/drpeterscode.com\/bad-bot-exterminator-protects-wordpress-sites-from-hackers-cyber-ddos-dos-attacks.php\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blog.adrianbolboaca.ro\/wp-content\/plugins\/dpabottomofpostpage\/apixel1x1.jpg\" ><\/a><table><\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of technical debt is used a lot in the software world today.\u00a0 But the problem is that the concept is used almost always with a different meaning than&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[238,135,240,134,239,237],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ward Cunningham - Technical Debt Metaphor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this video Ward Cunningham explains how he coined the Technical Debt metaphor when working for a financial tool. 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