What Do Engineers Really Think About Technical Debt?

Written by alexomeyer | Published 2021/08/15
Tech Story Tags: programming | software-development | software-engineering | technical-debt | code-quality | coding | about-technical-debt | hackernoon-top-story

TLDR The State of Technical Debt 2021 Report explores the impact of tech debt on developer morale, velocity, and customer experience. Engineers say they spend 6 hours per week (roughly 1 day) dealing with technical debt. 58% of companies still have no process to manage technical debt, according to the report. Engineers believe the team would ship up to 100% faster if they had a process for technical debt. Another 15% think they would be 200% more productive. Engineers are convinced that technical debt is the primary reason for productivity losses. Backends contain the most amount of technical debt in the codebase.via the TL;DR App
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Written by alexomeyer | Co-founder & CEO at stepsize.com, creating the AI companion for software projects
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/08/15
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