technical debt
What is technical debt?
The definition
Technical debt is the price of the shortcuts taken to move fast. You don’t see it on screen: you measure it in lead times. When a feature that took two days now takes ten, you’re paying the interest.
Why it matters to you
It gets repaid in money or in time, never in nothing.
It counts as a liability in a fundraise or a sale.
It isn’t a mistake: the V1 had to move fast, and it was right to.
A real-life example
A team promised its customers two features per quarter and delivered only one. The product hadn’t slowed down by magic: every change went through code nobody understood anymore.
And in your case? ?
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