Breaking Technical Debt's Vicious Cycle to Modernize Your Business

Baig, A., Blumberg, S., Gundurao, A., & Kayyali, B. (2023). Breaking Technical Debt's Vicious Cycle to Modernize Your Business. McKinsey & Company.

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2023

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• Threshold Bounded Vicious Cycle
  • The threshold is the refactoring effort at which drag drops enough that freed capacity exceeds the maintenance burden.

    This sourceDescribes the self-reinforcing technical-debt cycle in which accumulated debt diverts engineering capacity into firefighting and maintenance, so that incremental cleanup is consumed before it compounds and only a large remediation effort escapes the trap.

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