Technical Debt — Good or Evil?

Bring up the topic of “technical debt” to a software engineer, a product owner, a stakeholder, or heavens above, the gold owner.

What happens? Do you get frowns? Smiles? Nervous fidgeting?

Technical Debt is such a loaded, misused, and misunderstood term.

I imagine in most conversations when the topic comes up we probably aren’t even talking about the same…