STOP REARRANGING DECK CHAIRS: HOW TO SOLVE LEGACY DEBT

This article is about legacy debt specifically, and not just technical debt in general. To be able to understand how legacy debt affects your organisation, and how you can manage it, let’s first see what it is and where it stands in the context of its parent, technical debt.

Technical debt itself is a term widely used but often misunderstood. Depending on the context and the person using it, its meaning shifts and carries various assumptions.