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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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No left at the company even knows how to work the erp properly. Because the person who set it up and customized it didn’t document or train anyone and then left…

That's not technical debt. That isn't even the definition of legacy code. That's a mess and a whole set of problems, but technical debt ain't one of it.

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