Technical Debt
Technical Debt is any technical issues slowing down the project due to hasty (short-sighted) decisions made at an earlier point.
All of us make bad decisions, but not fixing them and just differing them really leads to bigger problems as these issues have a snowball effect.
Technical debt can be introduced at various levels:
- Code smells is the most obvious one,
- But things like lack of (or poor) automation,
- poor choice of tools,
- fragility in the development environment
- and so on
can also contribute to technical debt.