> technical debt is ignored at nearly every level.
I agree. Technical debt is bad/evil and many (short-sighted) managers try to see no evil hear no evil speak no evil.
They don't want to tell their bosses the software is a maintenance nightmare which will cost the company dearly in the future.
I think we need a new better notion of "code ownership". People who write the code should in some sense "own" it. Only that way they will have a true incentive to make code maintainable and to minimize technical debt. The manager should of course own their shared of the code-ownership. They helped decide what should be in it and what not.
I agree. Technical debt is bad/evil and many (short-sighted) managers try to see no evil hear no evil speak no evil.
They don't want to tell their bosses the software is a maintenance nightmare which will cost the company dearly in the future.
I think we need a new better notion of "code ownership". People who write the code should in some sense "own" it. Only that way they will have a true incentive to make code maintainable and to minimize technical debt. The manager should of course own their shared of the code-ownership. They helped decide what should be in it and what not.