Posts made in July 5th, 2012

Don’t let the numbers fool you

Posted by Javier Salado on Jul 5, 2012 in From the editor, Technical debt | 0 comments

Eduardo Aguado’s latest article about technical debt, earlier this week, has created some controversy inside and outside Optimyth. I would like to give my point view, and I think a comment in Eduardo’s article is not enough. Technical debt is something that is worth measuring, it provides valuable information, as Eduardo said, but it is true that you have to look beyond the cold numbers. And bear in mind that what we are trying to do here is to quantify a metaphor!

So how do you look beyond? What is that valuable information it provides? and, are the numbers really useless?